Senior IT Systems & Ops Engineer

🚀 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 

As our Senior IT Systems & Operations Engineer, you will: 

• Engage stakeholders throughout the company to understand the needs and priorities to securely implement and maintain corporate applications, while promoting IT best practices cross-functionally
• Implement and maintain tools for IT operational efficiencies and automation, with a lens on innovative and modern technology (i.e. AI chatbots) 
• Ensure technological compliance with evolving security standards and policies, while future-proofing automations, computer systems, MDM, office network infrastructure, and remote collaboration tools 
• Streamline and optimize the configuration and workflows for access management with Workday data, Okta configuration, and downstream applications 
• Develop requirements, build, and thoroughly test workflows and automations in iPaaS tooling (i.e. Zapier) to automate manual processes for IT and business stakeholders
• Autonomously lead large impact system integration projects through all stages of SDLC 
• Create, maintain, and promote standards, procedures, and documentation for IT 
• Champion IT company wide by ensuring quality internal customer service for our global company through service desk tickets and access administration 
• Travel to our offices on a periodic basis to provide onsite AV, networking, and conferencing support
• Partner closely with leadership to build and report on team OKRs and roadmaps 
• Build and maintain vendor relationships and third party services as needed 

US Based:

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of San Francisco.

👋 You 

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego and a growth mindset, while leaning into action, details, and impact goes a long way here.

Join our growing IT Systems & Operations team! You will work cross functionally with our Security, Finance, and People team, as well as stakeholders across the company to ensure we are providing all employees with an exceptional experience from onboarding to offboarding, enabling them with the appropriate hardware and software to effectively do their job.  

You should have strong internal customer support skills, excellent problem solving abilities, and a knack for working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, multi-project environment. Our ideal candidate will bring hands-on technical experience with many tools listed below, as well as the curiosity and adaptability to learn new ones.   

In addition to 6+ years of experience as an IT professional in a high growth and/or tech company and 4+ years of experience configuring complex IT systems, you should have: 

• A proven track record of deploying and maintaining cloud-based corporate applications and automations for access management, security, and collaboration
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across all levels, including executives and external partners, with an ability to influence and lead without authority 
• Experience leading large-scale IT projects with strategic planning and detailed documentation (decision docs, requirements, test plans, deployments)
• Solid understanding of onboarding & offboarding business processes, with the ability to translate this into technical hardware and software needs 
• Proven success in scaling IT processes with automation and emerging technology for high-growth environments
• Experience in managing collaboration tools for remote & distributed teams (Google Workspace, Okta, Zoo