Senior Engineering Manager - Product Security

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. 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 that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. 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 team owns the software that makes our marketplace work. 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 minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.

Our product security team works alongside product and engineering to design secure software solutions for Faire’s web and mobile applications. The team is responsible for analyzing systems, identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities, advocating for security across engineering teams and leadership, and influencing product design and architecture. 

What you’ll do 

• Directly manage a senior team of highly talented software engineers focused on product security
• Lead team planning, prioritization, and staffing processes
• Identify, design, and execute on high-impact initiatives to improve product security across Faire.
• Consult and assist other teams at Faire to design inherently secure systems
• Help teams balance security and product needs
• Empower teams at Faire with training and guidance on security best practices

Qualifications

• A wealth of experience building secure products and implementing strong security practices
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• A strong technical background that you are still capable of using every day. 
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems.
• A track record of leading teams to higher levels of contribution.
• A track record of assisting team members to achieve higher levels of impact in their careers.
• Still willing and able to get your hands dirty with software design, code creation, tooling, etc.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

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 Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. 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.