Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours. Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. The Data Platform group supports everyone at Faire who depends on data: Product Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, Strategy, Finance, and Product. Our job is to make sure the data is there, it's right,



and people can find it and query it without having to think about the plumbing underneath. Concretely, this means the path data takes out of our production databases (CockroachDB and MySQL) and into a place where analysts and data scientists can query it. Today that involves Fivetran, Kafka, Spark, and Airflow landing data in Snowflake and Databricks. You'll also be the person other teams come to when they need to know how data should move at Faire. Set the technical direction for how data moves from production systems into our analytical stores, and own the roadmap to get there over the next couple of years. CockroachDB changefeeds and MySQL binlogs into Kafka, then into Iceberg tables on S3. You'll be responsible for the hard details like ordering, deduplication, late data, schema changes, and backfills. Implement data contracts and quality checks throughout our platform Put real ownership and SLAs on the datasets the business runs on, and wire quality checks into the platform with tools like Anomalo and Monte Carlo so we hear about broken data before a dashboard or a model does. Work with the senior engineers, data scientists, and analysts who depend on this platform, and lead the migration of existing pipelines onto the new one without breaking what they rely on. We want the team’s data engineering practice to be better because you were here. Deep experience with change data capture and streaming ingestion from operational databases through Kafka.



Strong Spark skills, and experience running Databricks and Snowflake against shared storage. Experience with data quality and observability in practice, including data contracts, SLAs, and tools like Anomalo or Monte Carlo. Strong SQL, and good instincts for how to model data so analysts and data scientists can actually use it. Solid Python plus at least one of Kotlin, Java, Scala, or Go. Experience shipping infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. A working understanding of data governance: access control, PII, retention and deletion, lineage, and audit. A track record of leading cross‑team data initiatives and migrations, and of mentoring senior engineers. You can explain a technical tradeoff to a leadership team and to a new grad, and you can get people who disagree with each other to a decision. Python, Kotlin, SQL S3, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes CockroachDB, MySQL, Scylla and DynamoDB This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in‑office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting. You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move rapid and see your results clearly. We invest in what ma

📌 Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer (Waterloo)
🏢 Faire
📍 Waterloo