About the company
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. Weāre building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, and Germany today. Weāre innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.
Job Summary
What you'll do:
šDrive the development of the machine learning platform roadmap, staying abreast of emerging business needs that the machine learning platform can help address. šEnhance our machine learning infrastructure--increase reliability, reduce latency, and continually improve the developer experience. šDevelop scalable machine learning design patterns that make it easy for machine learning scientists and engineers to safely deploy models to production. šImprove model training, management, and monitoring šTake a leading role in deploying ML models on business critical surfaces & flows. šDefine and advance our technical approach to scalable machine learning. šFlex outside your comfort zone to help take on new challenges that emerge
You
šCurious about who thrives at Whatnot? Weāve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here. šAs our next Software Engineer, Machine Learning you should have 5+ years of experience, plus: šBachelorās degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience. š2+ years of professional experience setting up machine learning platformsāmodel serving, features stores, model registries, training pipelines, etc. š1+ years of professional experience developing software in Python Software engineering experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data. šAbility to work autonomously and drive initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. šExperience with operational, search, and key-value databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis. Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana šFamiliarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark. šProfessionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work. šExceptional documentation and communication skills. šExperience in applied statistical and machine learning fields e.g. Recommendations, Search, Fraud & Anomaly Detection, Experimentation and Causal Analysis preferred.