Senior Platform Analytics Engineer

About Faire
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.

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.

The Analytics Platform team builds capabilities to accelerate data‑driven analytics, improve productivity and accuracy  mandate is to reduce time from data to insights.

The team focuses on the following areas and capabilities:

Data warehousing optimization, including performance, efficiency, cost

Capabilities for data quality, metadata enrichment, lineage, privacy

Tooling and capabilities to accelerate productivity of analytics subject matter experts; automation of analytics functions

Development patterns and practices for foundational assets

Elements of data security, privacy, and governance

The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors.

We’re looking for

An experienced analytics engineer to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization.

What you’ll do

Partner with key internal customers of the analytics function across business verticals, Strategy, Finance, others to develop capabilities based on their needs

Improve development patterns and guide the broader analytics function on evolution of foundational datasets

Lead technical execution in building scalable data models and pipelines for key domains, defining architecture, feature requirements, roadmaps

Tackle challenges of data quality, integrity, relevance, and other analytics related concerns, for accurate and reliable insights

Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our architecture with a focus on analytics

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.

Qualifications

Strong SQL and Python skills and demonstrated competencies in designing well‑architected data models and optimizing query performance

Experience building and evolving platform / foundational datasets and enabling other business functions that consume them

Analytics engineering experience with a focus on data modeling, large‑scale data processing, and tool development for analytics or data science use cases

Experience with Airflow, dbt or similar analytics workflow tools;
Snowflake experience especially valuable

Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETLs, big data technologies, and analytics platforms

Data warehousing experience at petabyte scale

Understanding of performance, capacity, cost trade‑offs in data processing systems

Strong communication skills

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent industry experience

Technologies we use and teach

AWS

Snowflake

Airflow

Spark

Python

Kotlin

Salary range
Canada: the pay range for this role is $160,000 -…