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Senior Staff Data Engineer

Faire5 days ago
Toronto
$268,000 - $368,500/yearly
Senior Level

Top Benefits

Health, dental, vision, disability coverage.
Paid time off, holidays, and 'Faire Fundays'.
Generous parental leave and fertility support.

About the 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
  • 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
  • Within the Platform group:
  • 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
  • Define technology strategy, roadmaps, architecture patterns and guidance
  • Striking the right balance of technical leadership and hands-on development
  • 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

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.

About Faire

Software Development
1001-5000

Empowering brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities.