Senior Client Platform Engineer
Join Faire as a Senior Client Platform Engineer to enhance endpoint management and security for a global team.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 4 days ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Evaluate and roll out AI-powered IT tooling, and use AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, config management, and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Client Platform Engineer at Faire, the individual will focus on designing and maintaining automation for endpoint management across various operating systems while ensuring security and compliance. Key skills include proficiency in enterprise MDM solutions, scripting languages, and a solid understanding of security best practices, particularly in relation to AI tools. This position is ideal for someone with over five years of experience managing large fleets of devices and a background in IT operations. Faire's commitment to leveraging technology for local businesses underscores the importance of this role in enhancing employee experiences.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Faire's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 64% of 87 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States that list Python we track (median $165,000 across 39 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 63.6% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States; Windows appears in 1.6% of 184 comparable senior devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Client Platform Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Faire expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the salary range?
- Faire lists $174,500–$240,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Client Platform Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Faire is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Android, Ansible, Chef, Chrome OS, Fleet, Golang.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Faire targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Client Platform Engineer role at Faire.
From the original posting
About Faire
About the role
Our Client Platform Engineering team is responsible for the lifecycle and security of corporate endpoints. We support macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android platforms. You will work cross-functionally to develop the best endpoint experience for Faire employees while providing world-class support as an escalation liaison for the IT Operations team. We care about good engineering practices that are secure, tested, and easy to maintain that can scale to thousands of users. As AI tools become part of daily workflows, you'll also help define how we deploy, secure, and govern them across the fleet.
What you'll do:
- Design, build, and maintain automations across our endpoint management tech stack
- Own patching, OS upgrade campaigns, and application packaging and deployment
- Work closely with partner teams to design the best employee endpoint experience
- Have a keen eye for security best practices running a growing, mixed fleet of global endpoints
- Experience developing and deploying device trust
- Knowledge of EDR best practices and triage
- Exceptional customer service skills as you will be a point of escalation for the IT Operations team
- Document, teach, communicate, and reinforce procedures and best practices for the IT Team and offer technical mentorship and troubleshooting assistance to junior team members
- Set MDM controls and security posture for AI tools and agents on endpoints
- Evaluate and roll out AI-powered IT tooling, and use AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, config management, and troubleshooting
- Leverage AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, config management, and troubleshooting workflows
Qualifications:
- 5+ years managing a large distributed fleet of macOS and Windows devices
- Hands on experience with an enterprise MDM such as Workspace ONE, Jamf, or Fleet
- Proficiency in a shell (bash/zsh) and a scripting language (Ruby, Python, Golang)
- Experience managing endpoints or servers at scale using code-based configuration management such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or SaltStack
- Good understanding of Zero Trust or Beyond Corp concepts
- Comfortable with complex projects and able to build proof of concepts quickly
- Understands the importance of security, compliance, and privacy when working with personal data
- Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to build and maintain automation at scale
- Familiarity with the security considerations of AI tools/agents on managed endpoints (or willingness to build this expertise)
Salary Range
San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $174,500 to $240,000 per year.
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.
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