Top Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide Fundays
Generous parental, family, and fertility leave
About the role
Who you are
- We’re looking for: An experienced engineer with application and infrastructure level experience to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization
- Experience developing and running distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
- An interest in solving low-level performance problems and high-level system scalability problems
- Strong communication skills
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Networking (across the entire stack)
- Public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Caching and storage, both RDBMS and non-relational
- Scaling high-volume, high-traffic systems
- Observability, distributed tracing, root cause analysis
- Capacity <> cost tradeoffs
- Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Elasticsearch, Redis, Dynamo, Datadog, Kotlin
What the job involves
- Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Core Platform Infrastructure group enables 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
- The team builds and operates infrastructure used by all Faire services. It drives best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
- The team focuses on the following areas and capabilities:
- Rate limiting & retries
- Circuit breaking
- Load testing
- Fault injection
- SLOs
- Cost / performance optimization
- Monitoring & observability
- Caching systems and low-latency practices
- Database stability & performance
- Orchestrated safe change management
- The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors
- Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our architecture with a focus on performance, scalability, 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 difficult open-ended problems
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
Top Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide Fundays
Generous parental, family, and fertility leave
About the role
Who you are
- We’re looking for: An experienced engineer with application and infrastructure level experience to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization
- Experience developing and running distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
- An interest in solving low-level performance problems and high-level system scalability problems
- Strong communication skills
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Networking (across the entire stack)
- Public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Caching and storage, both RDBMS and non-relational
- Scaling high-volume, high-traffic systems
- Observability, distributed tracing, root cause analysis
- Capacity <> cost tradeoffs
- Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Elasticsearch, Redis, Dynamo, Datadog, Kotlin
What the job involves
- Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Core Platform Infrastructure group enables 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
- The team builds and operates infrastructure used by all Faire services. It drives best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
- The team focuses on the following areas and capabilities:
- Rate limiting & retries
- Circuit breaking
- Load testing
- Fault injection
- SLOs
- Cost / performance optimization
- Monitoring & observability
- Caching systems and low-latency practices
- Database stability & performance
- Orchestrated safe change management
- The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors
- Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our architecture with a focus on performance, scalability, 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 difficult open-ended problems
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