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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Whatnot Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Airflow, Data Warehousing, Monitoring of Systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Load Testing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Snowflake, Information Technology, Production Code - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-trust-experience-whatnot-com-7820406 ## About the Role As our next Software Engineer you should have 4+ years of total software engineering experience, plus: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience. * 1+ years of experience writing production code in Python. * 1+ years of experience in Trust and Risk or Integrity or Fraud domains preferred. * Business intuition & a data-driven mindset that enables you to think critically about the growth headwinds abuse prevention systems can create. Explicit data science or machine-learning experience is a huge plus. * Obsession with impact. You are focused on driving value for users & have a track record of deploying simple solutions wherever feasible. You move as fast as possible without sacrificing quality. * Relentnessness & entrepreneurship. You prioritize your work ruthlessly & run through walls to get things done. Your curiosity drives you to dig into user problems & craft suggestions on how we can address them. * Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. * Comfortability with data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster. * Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested reproducible work. * Above average documentation and communication skills. ## Description The Trust and Risk, Fraud, and Integrity teams at Whatnot are responsible for building systems that help set clear expectations, encourage good behavior, and address issues fairly and efficiently. By combining proactive detection with transparent enforcement, we ensure Whatnot remains a safe and trustworthy place for both buyers and sellers.. They focus on: * Policy enforcement and dispute resolution: Designing systems that set clear behavioral expectations, detect and address policy violations, and resolve disputes efficiently. * Reusable, high-performance platforms: Building and maintaining scalable infrastructure that powers internal operations, automated and manual actioning systems, and advanced detection capabilities. * Intelligent detection and prevention: Leveraging machine learning, behavioral analysis, and real-time interventions to stay ahead of evolving abuse patterns and protect both buyers and sellers. * Continuous improvement: Using feedback loops and monitoring systems as managed assets for ongoing quality assurance and for strengthening algorithms, methodologies, and operational processes. Together, these teams ensure Whatnot remains a trusted, safe, and thriving marketplace for all users. What you'll do: * Design and develop systems to protect the platform: Build and iterate on production algorithms and infrastructures that mitigate systemic risks and safeguard buyers, sellers, and the broader Whatnot community. * Balance risk and user experience: Proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction. * Respond in real time to threats: Architect event-driven pipelines and detection frameworks that enable near real-time responses to high-risk user behavior. * Contribute across the full development lifecycle: Engage in ideation, scoping, prototyping, load testing, deployment, and monitoring to deliver resilient and scalable solutions. * Drive cross-team initiatives: Collaborate across multiple product surfaces and operational teams, surfacing insights to leadership and stakeholders through dashboards, notebooks, and clear written documentation. * Continuously evolve defenses: Stay ahead of emerging abuse patterns, abuse vectors, and account integrity risks by iterating quickly and rigorously testing solutions. We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our San Francisco or Los Angeles hub. You People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. 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