Faire

Faire

Senior Staff Data Engineer - Platform Data and Analytics

San Francisco, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$268k-$369kDetected 1 day ago
PythonSQLSnowflakeAWSMachine LearningSparkAirflowData EngineeringData ScienceLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • 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 care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • lead architecture development with a focus on data integrity, security, performance, scale, reliability, monitoring/alerting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • We enable product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality.
  • Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.

Requirements

  • Strong SQL and Python skills and experience.
  • 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.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin.

Skills

  • AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin.
  • Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local.
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Compensation

  • San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $268,000 to $368,500 per year.
  • 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.
  • Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
  • the pay range for this role is $268,000 to $368,500 per year.

Benefits

  • This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Company info

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

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