Senior Staff Data Engineer - Platform Data and Analytics

Faire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 368,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equity opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Faire is seeking a highly experienced technical leader for their data space in San Francisco. You'll define technology strategy and lead teams to enhance our analytics capabilities. This role engages with various functions to ensure effective data-driven decision making, with a focus on integrity, performance, and security.

Compensation ranges from $268,000 to $368,500 annually with potential equity and benefits, reflecting Faire's commitment to support both personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experienced technical leader in the data space.
• Ability to define technology strategy and architecture.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute on scalable technology projects.
• Provide technical guidance on data systems.
• Engage with team planning to balance goals.

Skills

Data streaming, batch processing

ETL/ELT orchestration

Strong SQL skills

Python experience

Data warehousing (petabyte scale)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Airflow

Spark

Kotlin

Job description

About Faire

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi‑hundred‑billion‑dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we’re using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

About This Role

Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. The Platform group empowers teams across Faire: Product Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Strategy, Analytics, Finance, and more. Enabling these functions to do their best work without concern about underlying infrastructure. We enable product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality. We care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users. We value best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance.

This role is for a highly experienced technical leader in the data space, whose influence spans multiple Platform and Product groups.

Within The Platform Group

• The Data Infrastructure team builds and operates a secure, reliable, cost‑efficient, opinionated platform for data ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, and governance.
• The Analytics Platform team builds efficient data warehousing capabilities, foundational data assets, and tools to accelerate data‑driven analytics. Its mandate is to reduce time from data to insights.

The teams also own relationships with relevant technology infrastructure vendors.

Additionally, this role would influence and interact with all data and analytics related functions at Faire. The product analytics engineering (PAE) function enables domain‑specific AE capabilities, working closely with Data Science, Strategy & Analytics, Finance. The data science (DS) function leads modeling development and evaluation, raising effectiveness and efficiency of key product features.

We’re looking for:

An experienced technical leader with data and analytics background to work alongside and lead / influence across multiple teams and departments. Define technology strategy, roadmaps, architecture patterns and guidance, striking the right balance of technical leadership and hands‑on development.

What You’ll Do

• Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with Faire’s growth; lead architecture development with a focus on data integrity, security, performance, scale, reliability, monitoring/alerting.
• Engage with team planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near‑term needs with long‑term goals.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship on the most difficult open‑ended problems we face. Including cost‑efficient compute and storage, ETL and ELT pipelines, data ingest and warehousing, monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking for workloads, design practices for foundational assets, data security, privacy, and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and operating data streaming, batch, ETL/ELT, orchestration, storage, compute, workflow systems at scale.
• Experience defining architecture patterns and building reliable, scalable data pipelines, orchestration of data movement, querying, transformation, and frameworks for analytics engineering workflows.
• Strong SQL and Python skills and experience.
• Data warehousing experience at petabyte scale.
• Snowflake, Airflow, Spark experience especially valuable.
• Understanding of performance, capacity, cost trade‑offs in data processing systems. Experience in guiding technical and product teams on such trade‑offs.
• Experience diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing data system production issues at scale. Experience rolling out patterns for workload performance and cost optimization.
• Experience operating in a growth stage company, with a data function consisting of multiple teams and over 60 people. Enabling teams to operate in a self‑serve model.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin.

Salary Range

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $268,000 to $368,500 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• Move fast: You’ll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards: Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We’re intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form.

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