Storage Engineer

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

• Bachelor’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. You’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