Senior Production Engineer

Whatnot
Dublin
Workplace: HybridFull timeEUR 131,000 - 190,000 annuallyFunction: Manufacturing & Production OperationsExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ownership","Curiosity","Outcome focus","Collaboration","Action orientation"]

Embed with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems at live-commerce scale. Hunt anomalies across traffic, latency, errors, and cost signals (including cross-team seams), connect operational degradation to business impact, and drive incident response and systemic fixes. Strengthen observability, prepare for peak events via load testing and drills, and apply AI to operations through anomaly detection and toil reduction, primarily in Python/Elixir with Go for infrastructure.

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Whatnot
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Senior Production Engineer

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Job Summary

Embed with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems at live-commerce scale. Hunt anomalies across traffic, latency, errors, and cost signals (including cross-team seams), connect operational degradation to business impact, and drive incident response and systemic fixes. Strengthen observability, prepare for peak events via load testing and drills, and apply AI to operations through anomaly detection and toil reduction, primarily in Python/Elixir with Go for infrastructure.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems you embed with by writing production code.
  • •Hunt anomalies across traffic, latency, error, and cost signals and trace issues to root cause across services, storage, and clients.
  • •Prioritize which degradations matter by connecting operational signals to business impact for relevant cohorts.
  • •Prepare for peak events using capacity modeling, load testing, and failure drills; improve observability so anomalies are detected quickly.
  • •Lead incident response for complex cross-team failures and drive systemic fixes, including escalation and on-call support.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 131,000 - 190,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRemote WorkHome OfficeCell PhoneInternetWellness StipendChildcare401kPensionPaid LeaveParental LeaveMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • •6+ years building and debugging production services at scale, potentially through production engineering, SRE, or systems engineering.
  • •Strong systems and distributed systems fundamentals, including failure modes and saturation under load.
  • •Depth in observability and production debugging, including experience with capacity/performance engineering, load/resilience testing, incident command, or production migrations.
  • •Comfort in cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code; backend primarily Python/Elixir and Go for infrastructure.
Experience:6+ yearsReal-time systemsEvent-driven systemsLive streamingHigh-traffic systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:OwnershipCuriosityOutcome focusCollaborationAction orientation
Tech Stack:PythonElixirGoAWSGCPKubernetesInfrastructure as codeLinux

Company Brief

Whatnot
Whatnot is a live-stream shopping marketplace connecting sellers and collectors for trading cards, toys, and collectibles. The platform hosts live auctions and interactive streams, enabling creators and small businesses to sell directly to engaged communities.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: United States
Founded: 2019
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