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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Hybrid
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:
Faire operates at serious scale — a global marketplace handling real money movement, sensitive business data, and the financial futures of hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands. Security here isn't a compliance checkbox. It's a core part of how we build, and how we grow.
We've built solid security foundations. Now we're looking for someone to take them to the next level — designing the architecture and automation that lets product engineers build securely by default, without friction. If you're energized by the challenge of making security invisible to developers while making it impossible to skip, this role was written for you.
Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Product Security team enables product engineering teams to develop and deploy secure software that makes that happen. We care about good engineering practice and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and can scale to millions of users. We build scalable, reusable frameworks; consult with product teams; listen to the data; and iterate.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security, you'll be a senior technical contributor on the Product Security team -- driving the design, implementation, and automation of security systems across Faire's entire application stack. You will partner closely with Platform and Product Engineering teams to identify and mitigate security risks, lead major security initiatives, and mentor engineers across the company to raise the bar on secure engineering practices.
You will also drive cross-functional programs to ensure security is deeply integrated into our architecture, pipelines, and developer experience -- reducing risk while maintaining velocity.
Why now:
Faire has spent the last few years scaling fast -- expanding globally, growing to hundreds of thousands of retailers and brands, and building the infrastructure to match. Security has kept pace, but we've reached an inflection point. The foundations are in place. What's next requires a different kind of thinking: less reactive, more architectural. Less manual review, more automation baked into every pipeline and framework from day one.
This is a role with real room to grow. The person who takes this seat will have the opportunity to expand their technical leadership scope over time, including into infrastructure security.
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Canada: The pay range for this role is $190,500 - 262,000 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, 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.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.
Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)
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