Senior Staff Data Engineer, Faire
Platform Data and Analytics
$276-379.5k
Plus equity. Salary shown for California & New York, other locations may vary
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Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
Open for applications
Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$276-379.5k
Plus equity. Salary shown for California & New York, other locations may vary
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for a highly experienced technical leader in the data space, whose influence spans multiple Platform and Product groups
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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, etc. 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Faire is helping retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects over 500,000 retailers globally to hundreds of thousands of brands across the globe.
In addition to a large catalog, the company attracts smaller retailers by offering net 60-day terms and free returns to boost confident buying at unpredictable times. Faire has seen impressive growth, reporting 300% year-on-year volume growth and a valuation of over $12.6B following its most recent tranche of funding from Shopify.
This investment is funding its continuing expansion into European and Australian markets, while accelerating product development, focusing on its OS for wholesale. It is also hiring talent globally as it takes aim at becoming a kind of Amazon for local and indie brands that want to sell globally.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
May 2022
$416m
SERIES G
Nov 2021
$400m
SERIES G
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare: Including Health, Dental, Vision and Disability for all our locations.
- Time off: Paid time off, holidays and company-wide "Faire Fundays".
- Parental leave: Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits.
- Productivity support: Monthly stipends to help cover work from home connectivity needs.
- Annual learning grant: For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning.
- Thoughtfully designed spaces: All of our offices have been designed with local in mind – from our architects to our coffee blends.
- Fitness and well-being benefits: Including monthly credit towards your wellness-related programmes.
- Mental health benefits: Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources.
- Charitable matching: Faire will match up to £250 of your charity donations, every year.
- Career planning: Whether you want to grow as a leader, hone your craft or explore a new discipline, our career framework allows space for you to explore.
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Rhodes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Advisor at Blunt Umbrellas and a Director of Consumer Product at Square.
Marcelo Cortes
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google. Prior to that, they co-founded FreePoint Inc.
Jeff Kolovson
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an Operations Lead at Square. Prior to that, they were a Business Analyst for McKinsey and Co.
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