Senior Engineering Manager, Faire
Platform Infrastructure
CA$184-230k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace
Be an early applicant
Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$184-230k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower entrepreneurs around the world to chase their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced technical Engineering Manager with substantial architecture and infrastructure experience to lead a portion of the team, covering one of the two main themes mentioned above
- The focus is leading highly talented engineers, enabling them to develop and deliver on a technical roadmap and engage with teams organization-wide
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- A strong technical background in scalable distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
- Experience leading engineers working on technology challenges in multiple domains: networking, public cloud infrastructure, caching and storage, scaling high-volume systems, observability/telemetry, root cause analysis, capacity vs. cost tradeoffs, etc
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
- A track record of leading teams to higher levels of contribution
- Capable and willing to write software for a couple of months as part of your onboarding
- Experience setting up and running on-call rotations
- Strong communication skills; ability to bring disparate groups of people to a shared understanding
What the job involves
- Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work
- Our Platform group enables product engineering teams to develop 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
- Our Platform Reliability Engineering team builds and operates the core infrastructure used by all Faire services
- It drives best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
- Infrastructure and Resiliency: Enabling developers to ship and operate services on a stable, available, and fault-tolerant foundation, while minimizing developer friction and enabling high development velocity
- Performance and Insights: Maximizing resource efficiency and providing developers with capabilities to understand and continuously improve their services, to deliver excellent user experiences
- Select areas and capabilities owned by the team:
- Resiliency at the application and infrastructure layers (rate-limiting, circuit breakers, load shedding)
- Fault injection
- Patterns and practices for SLOs
- Database stability & performance
- Cost <> performance optimization
- Observability, telemetry, instrumentation, monitoring
- Infrastructure lifecycle management
- The team owns relationships with key infrastructure vendors: public cloud, observability, alerting, edge networking, etc
- Define and execute a technology strategy that scales with our growth, and contributes to our architectural guidance
- Lead the team in strategy development, planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near-term needs with long-term goals
- Influence the Engineering organization to adopt patterns and practices developed by the team
- Handle vendor relationships, contract negotiations and renewal in the technology infrastructure space
- Manage operational on-call rotation and associated concerns
- Provide career guidance and mentorship to Engineers
Application process
- Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date
Our take
Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects two million retailers globally to tens 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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I joined Faire over a month ago and the onboarding has been very comprehensive including some additional material that has been extremely helpful..."
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
May 2022
$416m
SERIES G
Nov 2021
$400m
SERIES G
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare
- All of our offices have been designed with local in mind—from our architects to our coffee blends
- Paid vacation time, holidays, and company-wide “Faire Fundays.”
- Including a monthly credit toward your wellness-related programs
- Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits
- Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources
- Optional morning meditation, plus a free Headspace membership
- Faire will match up to US$250 of your charitable donations, every year
- For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning
- 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 values
- We serve our community
- We seek the truth
- We’re all owners
- We embrace the adventure
- We’re kind
Articles
Leadership
Max Rhodes
(CEO)Was previously an Advisor at Blunt Umbrellas and Director of Consumer Product at Square.
Daniele Perito
(Advisor)Former Director of Security and Risk Engineering at Square, prior to co-founding Faire.
Marcelo Cortes
(CTO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google. Before that, co-founded FreePoint Inc.
Jeff Kolovson
(COO)Was Operations Lead at Square. Before that was a Business Analust for McKinsey and Co.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faire
Clarence Sanon (Engagement and Inclusion Manager)
- We have internal structures and mechanisms that acknowledge and counteract organizational bias while ensuring equitable opportunity across the organization.
- Our teams are balanced across demographic backgrounds and identities, ensuring equity at all levels of the organization and ensuring a region-specific nuance
- Faire Femmes: Our mission is to build a space that is inclusive, safe, and empowering for those who identify as women to succeed
- HUE: Our mission is to create a safe space where folks of colour can feel comfortable being themselves and talk to folks who get it. We want HUE members to feel confident expressing themselves, their culture, and their heritage
- Flaire: Our mission is to empower all Faire employees to express their whole selves at work, and to make Faire an inclusive environment for all members of the LGBTQ+ community
- Fairents: Our mission is to cultivate Faire into a company where working parents can thrive in their professional ambitions, maximize their impact supporting Faire business goals, and be successful in their pursuit of rewarding & fulfilling journeys as parents
- We have employee resource groups (ERGs) and a cross-functional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Council (DEIB) at Faire. The DEIB Council works in collaboration with other functions to ensure integration and consideration of DEIB in policies, programs, products, and processes
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