Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 28, 2026.
Join Whatnot, the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe. As a Software Engineer on the Safety Experience team, you'll design and develop systems to protect the platform, balance risk and user experience, respond in real time to threats, contribute across the full development lifecycle, drive cross-team initiatives, and continuously evolve defenses. You should have 4+ years of software engineering experience, a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, and a data-driven mindset. Benefits include generous time off, health insurance options, work from home support, care benefits, retirement plans, and parental leave.
Missions
- Design and develop systems to protect the platform, building and iterating on production algorithms and infrastructures that mitigate systemic risks.
- Balance risk and user experience by proactively monitoring the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction.
- Respond in real time to threats by architecting event-driven pipelines and detection frameworks that enable near real-time responses to high-risk user behavior.

