Join Faire as a Staff Engineer to lead the development of a centralized experimentation platform for a thriving local retail community.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Engineer for the Experimentation Platform at Faire will focus on defining and executing a comprehensive strategy for experimentation across the organization, ensuring that product teams can leverage robust analytics infrastructure. The position requires extensive experience in building and scaling experimentation platforms, particularly in e-commerce settings, along with a strong command of A/B testing methodologies and modern data stacks. This role is ideal for a seasoned technical leader who excels in cross-functional collaboration and is adept at translating business needs into actionable experimentation capabilities.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Faire's careers page October 29, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Faire: Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$128,700).
- Starts above 93% of 28 comparable staff other roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,464 across 17 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 15.2% of 276 comparable staff other roles in United States; Airflow appears in 0.4% of 276 comparable staff other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Engineer - Experimentation Platform role remote?
- It's hybrid — Faire expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the salary range?
- Faire lists $231,000–$318,000 for this 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: AWS, Airflow, Kotlin, Python, Snowflake, Spark.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Faire targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Engineer - Experimentation Platform role at Faire.
From the original posting
About Faire
About this role:
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.
This role is for a highly experienced technical leader specializing in experimentation infrastructure.
This role will influence and interact with all users of experiments functionality at Faire. From product teams and associated analytics engineering, to data scientists, Faire’s Strategy and Analytics function, etc. This technical leader will define and execute a technology roadmap and set design and usage patterns in the experimentation space. Striking the right balance of technical leadership and hands-on development.
What you’ll do:
- Define and execute long-term strategy for experimentation and measurement company-wide.
- Establish and develop a technology roadmap for a centralized experimentation platform powered by Eppo and integrated with Faire’s data ecosystem. Including measurement infrastructure, experiment lifecycle, governance, self-service tooling, standards for experiment design, metric creation, result interpretation.
- Partner with Faire’s Strategy and Analytics group, Product Management, Data Science, and other functions who are key consumers of experiments infrastructure.
Qualifications:
Extensive software engineering experience with strong focus on experimentation, analytics infrastructure, and product development. Proficient in defining technical vision for experimentation and leading adoption across organizational boundaries.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling experimentation platforms in SaaS systems; focus on marketplace and e-commerce environments especially valuable.
- Deep understanding of A/B testing, multivariate testing, feature rollout, progressive delivery techniques.
- Ability to translate business objectives into experimentation and measurement capabilities.
- Experience implementing and operating commercial or open-source experimentation platforms; Eppo experience especially valuable.
- Strong understanding of experiment lifecycle management and key methodologies.
- Experience collaborating across disciplines to ensure rigor and trustworthy decision-making.
- Strong knowledge of modern data stacks; Snowflake and Databricks experience especially valuable.
- Expertise in data quality and observability tools; Anomalo experience especially valuable.
- Strong SQL skills and ability to design scalable analytical data models.
- Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin.
Salary range:
San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $231,000 to $318,000 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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