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# Senior Software Engineer, Observability

- **Company:** Whatnot Inc.
- **Location:** Marina Del Rey, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Online Analytical Processing, Reliability Engineering, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Build Tools, Elixir
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pl4ossijrk

## About the Role

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. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

 * 7+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems. Experience in Python, Elixir, or Go is preferred, but strong engineers from other backend stacks who are eager to learn are welcome.
 * You identify as a software engineer first. You want to build systems and write code, not just configure infrastructure or respond to pages.
 * Have a strong understanding of observability principles, knowing different types of metrics, logs, events and traces; and where they are applicable
 * Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and operating shared production services and frameworks.
 * Experience with one or more of the following:
 * OpenTelemetry
 * OLAP databases
 * Creating developer-facing tools, libraries, frameworks
 * High-traffic, real-time, or event-driven systems
 * Comfortable in cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.
 * Strong collaborator with clear written and verbal communication skills.

## Description

The Infrastructure Reliability Engineering team is looking for seasoned Software Engineers who will be responsible for rethinking and redesigning how we do Observability at Whatnot. As our scale, traffic, and complexity continue to grow; yesterday's tools, vendors and platforms are becoming obsolete and impractical. Your job is to ensure that we have visibility into the state, performance, reliability and user's experiences of our software stack, and that this visibility remains 10x and 100x our current scale.


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