🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.
And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.
💻 Role
We are seeking a new grad to join the CyberSecurity team. The CyberSecurity team at Whatnot is responsible for the security and protection of all information trusted to Whatnot's by its customers (sellers and buyers), partners, and employees. In this role, you will ensure the integrity and security of Whatnot's entire cloud infrastructure including SaaS applications. Your work will be essential in assessing threats and developing defenses that can stop or mitigate cyber issues such as attacks and data breaches.
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, or Los Angeles, CA hubs.
- You will conduct security assessments / testing, harden our infrastructure, develop comprehensive threat detection capabilities, and build the security fabric for a modern scale production infrastructure
- Conduct in-depth security reviews of infrastructure controls, back-end services, and business integrations, as well as build tools for a secure environment
- Design and implement secure solutions for authentication and authorization, networking, orchestration, deployment configuration, logging, system hardening, threat hunting and debugging of cloud services
- Investigate events, triage potential incidents, and work closely with multiple teams during incidents to drive response efforts
- Be a champion for security and user privacy
👋 You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here. As our next Cloud Security Analyst you should have experience in public cloud infrastructure security at scale, plus:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science graduating by Summer 2025
- Good problem solving skills
- Basic experience with AWS cloud provider
- Good understanding of cloud and network security
- Fluency in Python and TypeScript
- Understanding of modern cloud technology components and deployment patterns: virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, infrastructure as code, etc
💰Compensation
US-based applicants: $130,000/year - $140,000/year + benefits + equity.
The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.
🎁 Benefits
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- We expect all employees to actively use the product!
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
💛 EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
