💼 About This Role

You'll lead the Reliability Engineering team at Whatnot, building distributed systems and developer-facing tools that make reliability a built-in property. You'll own the technical direction, develop strategic roadmaps, and ensure scalable and resilient systems as the company grows. This role offers significant leadership scope, possibly including site leadership for Poland.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, supporting technical growth and career development.
• Set technical direction and quality standards while empowering senior ICs.
• Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for reliability engineering.
• Build and operationalize best practices for SLOs, monitoring, and incident response.

📋 Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience, ideally in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 5+ years managing engineering teams, with experience leading managers or multiple teams a plus.
• Proven track record building and operating large-scale distributed systems with strong reliability practices.
• Deep technical grounding in SLO design, monitoring/alerting, incident tooling, or traffic control.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience leading teams that ship developer-facing platforms or internal tools.
• Experience with load testing and chaos engineering.
• Familiarity with incident response and blameless postmortems.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive base salary with equity
• 🏖️ Remote-first culture
• 🏥 Health insurance and wellness benefits
• 📈 Career development and learning opportunities
• 🌍 Global team with hubs across US, UK, Europe, Australia

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 60 min
3. 3Technical Interview· 60 min
4. 4Leadership Interview· 45 min

🚩 Heads Up

• Role may require taking on Poland site leadership, which could exceed typical EM scope.
• Extensive leadership expectations (mentoring, hiring, org design) for a single role.
• Compensation range is in PLN but listed as remote worldwide; currency mismatch may affect actual take-home.