Storage Engineer

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WhatNot

๐Ÿ’ต $185k-$245k
๐Ÿ“Remote - United States

Summary

Join Whatnot, the leading livestream shopping platform, as a Database Engineer! You will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our database systems to support rapid feature development and ensure platform reliability. We are a rapidly growing company investing in world-class database infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with product teams, enjoying significant autonomy and responsibility. We seek a trusted engineer who can translate business strategy into robust database architectures. This role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and innovative company.

Requirements

  • Bachelorโ€™s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of relational database engineering experience; Postgres experience preferred
  • Experience with database optimization, migrations, schema refinement, indexing, and query tuning
  • Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution

Responsibilities

  • Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our Postgres-based data layer, a mission-critical component of our infrastructure
  • Design and implement scalable database architectures, optimizing queries, tuning indexes, and refining schemas for efficiency
  • Drive long-term strategy for horizontal scaling, ensuring our systems grow alongside the business
  • Ensure high availability and fault tolerance, leading database upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning
  • Establish and promote best practices for data access patterns, security, and database operations

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior operational experience with database horizontal scaling strategies
  • Knowledge of NoSQL databases (DynamoDB etc)
  • Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP)
  • Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. Youโ€™re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction

Benefits

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence

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