Staff Engineer - Experimentation Platform

About the role

Faire is a technology wholesale platform connecting independent retailers worldwide. Its Engineering organization owns the software that powers the marketplace, and the Platform group enables product teams, data science, product management, strategy and analytics to build and run software quickly and securely. This role is for a highly experienced technical leader specializing in experimentation infrastructure, who will define and execute a technology roadmap and set design and usage patterns for experiments across the company.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute long-term strategy for experimentation and measurement company-wide.
• Build a technology roadmap for a centralized experimentation platform powered by Eppo and integrated with Faire's data ecosystem, covering measurement infrastructure, experiment lifecycle, governance, self-service tooling, standards for experiment design, metric creation and result interpretation.
• Partner with Strategy and Analytics, Product Management, Data Science and other functions that consume experiments infrastructure.

Required profile

• Extensive software engineering experience focused on experimentation, analytics infrastructure and product development, with a clear technical vision for experimentation.
• Extensive experience designing, building and scaling experimentation platforms in SaaS systems; marketplace and e-commerce experience especially valuable.
• Deep understanding of A/B testing, multivariate testing, feature rollout and progressive delivery.
• Ability to turn business objectives into experimentation and measurement capabilities.
• Experience implementing and operating commercial or open-source experimentation platforms; Eppo experience especially valuable.
• 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.

What we offer

• Pay range of $231,000 to $318,000 per year in San Francisco, plus eligibility for equity and benefits.
• Hybrid model: three days in the office per week, with remote work up to 4 weeks per year.
• Paid time off, recharge days, paid parental leave up to 16 weeks, comprehensive health coverage and fertility benefits.
• Mental health support, professional development stipends and an employer-sponsored retirement plan.