Staff Engineer - Experimentation Platform

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.

This role is for a highly experienced technical leader specializing in experimentation infrastructure. You will influence and interact with all users of experiments functionality at Faire—from product teams and associated analytics engineering, to data scientists and Faire’s Strategy and Analytics function. 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, and 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.
• Experience with or interest in technologies we use and teach: AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin.

Hybrid Policy

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 have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.