Staff Data Platform Engineer - Streaming & Lakehouse

Engg; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 247,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

Faire is hiring a Staff Engineer to own the data plumbing that moves data from production databases into analytical stores. You will design the next generation data ingestion pipeline, build hard parts, and guide teams through migrations.

You'll own reliability, data quality, and governance while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers. This hands-on role blends architecture and mentorship in a fast-paced marketplace environment.

Qualifications

• Architect and run scalable data infrastructure used by dozens of teams.
• Experience with CDC and streaming ingestion from operational databases.
• Hands-on with lakehouse architectures and Iceberg on S3.
• Strong SQL and data modeling for analysts and scientists.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, and on-call ownership.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for data movement into analytical stores.
• Build CDC/streaming layer: CockroachDB changes to Kafka, then Iceberg on S3.
• Ensure data quality, contracts, and SLAs with tooling like Anomalo or Monte Carlo.
• Run Airflow and Fivetran, decide what to buy vs build.
• Own platform reliability: SLOs, on-call reviews, incident follow-ups.
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-team data initiatives.

Skills

Change data capture

Streaming ingestion

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Python

Java

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL

Data governance

Data modeling

On-call ownership

Mentoring

Tools

Fivetran

Airflow

Iceberg

Kafka

CockroachDB

MySQL

Snowflake

Databricks

Terraform

Job description

Faire is hiring a Staff Engineer to own the data plumbing that moves data from production databases into analytical stores. You will design the next generation data ingestion pipeline, build hard parts, and guide teams through migrations.

You'll own reliability, data quality, and governance while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers. This hands-on role blends architecture and mentorship in a fast-paced marketplace environment.