Faire
Staff Engineer - Product Security
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$191k-$262kDetected 2 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaKotlinMySQLDynamoDBAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDMachine LearningCybersecurityIncident ResponseTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Faire operates at serious scale - a global marketplace handling real money movement, sensitive business data, and the financial futures of hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands.
- Security here isn't a compliance checkbox.
- If you're energized by the challenge of making security invisible to developers while making it impossible to skip, this role was written for you.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of high-impact, reusable frameworks for security use cases such as authentication, authorization, secrets management, and data protection.
- Partner with senior engineering and platform leaders to influence system design, threat models, and architecture decisions that strengthen Faire's overall security posture.
- Drive strategic cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Platform, Infrastructure, Risk, and Compliance teams to integrate security deeply into our technical and operational foundations.
- Mentor and guide engineers across the organization, raising the bar for secure software design, technical rigor, and security-first thinking.
- Lead complex investigations and incident response efforts, ensuring rapid, effective remediation and continuous improvement of our security systems.
- Our Product Security team enables product engineering teams to develop and deploy secure software that makes that happen.
- We care about good engineering practice and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and can scale to millions of users.
- As a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security, you'll be a senior technical contributor on the Product Security team -- driving the design, implementation, and automation of security systems across Faire's entire application stack.
- You will also drive cross-functional programs to ensure security is deeply integrated into our architecture, pipelines, and developer experience -- reducing risk while maintaining velocity.
- 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
- A track record of technical leadership -- driving company-wide or cross-organizational initiatives that improved security posture, developer experience, or system resilience.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments and modern infrastructure (AWS, OCI, GCP), including Kubernetes, Terraform, and container security.
- A strategic mindset -- you can balance risk reduction with engineering velocity and developer enablement.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and guide engineering teams across multiple domains.
- Deep expertise in software security architecture and engineering, with a proven ability to design and scale security frameworks across a large, distributed system.
- Strong programming skills and experience in multiple languages (e.g., Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go), with the ability to influence engineering design through code and review.
- Experience building and deploying security automation at scale, including CI/CD integrations, vulnerability management pipelines, and automated testing or remediation frameworks.
- A deep understanding of application security principles and practices, including authentication, authorization, data protection, and common web application vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10).
- A passion for mentoring others and cultivating a security-first engineering culture through partnership, guidance, and empathy.
- Technologies we use and teach:
Skills
- Kotlin, TypeScript, Python
- AWS, OCI, Terraform, Kubernetes
- HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers
- MySQL, DynamoDB, CockroachDB
- Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local.
- less reactive, more architectural.
- Less manual review, more automation baked into every pipeline and framework from day one.
Compensation
- Canada: The pay range for this role is $190,500 - 262,000 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.
Benefits
- This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Company info
- You will partner closely with Platform and Product Engineering teams to identify and mitigate security risks, lead major security initiatives, and mentor engineers across the company to raise the bar on secure engineering practices.
- You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
- It's a core part of how we build, and how we grow.
- Now we're looking for someone to take them to the next level - designing the architecture and automation that lets product engineers build securely by default, without friction.
This listing is sourced directly from Faire's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.