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Data Engineer (Analytics Platform)

Faire3 days ago
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
Mid Level
Full-Time

Top Benefits

Health, Dental, Vision, Disability coverage.
Paid time off, holidays, and 'Faire Fundays'.
Generous parental leave, plus fertility support.

About the 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
  • We enable product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality. We care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users. We value best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
  • The Analytics Platform team builds capabilities to accelerate data-driven analytics, improve productivity and accuracy at Faire. Its mandate is to reduce time from data to insights
  • Data warehousing, including cost-efficient storage and compute
  • ETL (extract, transform, load) and ELT (extract, load, transform) pipelines
  • Evolution of foundational datasets with company-wide utilization
  • BI (business intelligence) tooling and integrations
  • Productivity acceleration tooling for analytics use-cases, including AI/LLM powered tools
  • Automation of analytics functions
  • Monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking for workloads
  • Data security, privacy, and governance
  • The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors
  • Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our technology foundations with a focus on data integrity, security, performance, scale, reliability, operational excellence
  • Engage with team planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near-term needs with long-term goals
  • Provide technical expertise on difficult open-ended problems
  • Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, Python, Kotlin

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare: Including Health, Dental, Vision and Disability for all our locations.
  • Time off: Paid time off, holidays and company-wide “Faire Fundays”.
  • Parental leave: Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits.
  • Productivity support: Monthly stipends to help cover work from home connectivity needs.
  • Annual learning grant: For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning.
  • Thoughtfully designed spaces: All of our offices have been designed with local in mind – from our architects to our coffee blends.
  • Fitness and well-being benefits: Including monthly credit towards your wellness-related programmes.
  • Mental health benefits: Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources.
  • Charitable matching: Faire will match up to £250 of your charity donations, every year.
  • Career planning: Whether you want to grow as a leader, hone your craft or explore a new discipline, our career framework allows space for you to explore.- An engineer with data and analytics experience to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization
  • Understanding of data warehousing basics, especially Snowflake, is highly valuable
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience developing and operating ETL/ELT, storage, compute, workflow systems
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong Python and SQL skills
  • Exposure to building and operating reliable, scalable data pipelines, orchestration of data movement, querying, transformation, and frameworks for analytics engineering workflows
  • Experience diagnosing, mitigating, and addressing data system production issues at scale
  • Understanding of performance, capacity, cost trade-offs in data processing systems

About Faire

Software Development