Machine Learning Platform 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.

As a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you will help design, improve, and operate a scalable ML platform to accelerate model training, deployment, and governance. You are the technical bridge between data science and production engineering. You’ll be joining a small but deeply critical team that scales Faire’s ability to support tens of thousands of local businesses in a constantly narrowing retail landscape.

• Design and operate ML infrastructure, including work spaces, clusters, jobs, and workflows
• Productionize ML workloads using Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Databricks Workflows
• Teach data scientists how to utilize our ML platform to advance development from notebook to production for our most critical models
• Implement Unity Catalog for data governance, lineage, access control, and secure multi-tenant usage
• Build CI/CD pipelines for ML using Terraform and Git-based workflows (e.g., Git Hub Actions)
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost across training and inference workloads
• Configure Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role Based Authentication Controls (RBAC) for sensitive data sets
• Establish observability for data quality, model performance, and platform health
• Build and maintain ML Platform technical documentation

• 8+ years of experience building production ML or data platforms
• A degree (preferably graduate level) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed systems concepts
• Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code
• Solid understanding of MLOps best practices: CI/CD, monitoring, reproducibility, and security
• Experience supporting multiple ML teams in a shared platform environment
• Are an active owner of orphaned problems and are willing to assimilate whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done

Faire uses a modern cloud based tech stack. For this role, you’ll want to be proficient with the following:

Python, SQL, Kotlin

PyTorch, MLFlow

Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, Iceberg, Unity Catalog, Datadog, Airflow, Cockroach DB, MySQL

AWS, S3, Sage Maker, Kubernetes, Docker, Git Hub Actions, Terraform

Claude Sonnet 4.5, ChatGPT 5.2

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $246,500 to $339,000 per year.

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. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

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,…