Infrastructure Technical Lead

About Us
Faire is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing the way small businesses discover and purchase wholesale goods. Our platform connects independent retailers with global brands and products, making it easier for them to grow their business.
As a key member of our engineering team, you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of our platform. We're looking for a seasoned technical leader who can help us drive innovation and excellence in our engineering organization.
Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in strategy development, planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near-term needs with long-term goals
• Influence the Engineering organization to adopt patterns and practices developed by the team
• Handle vendor relationships, contract negotiations and renewal in the technology infrastructure space
• Manage operational on-call rotation and associated concerns
• Provide career guidance and mentorship to Engineers

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• A strong technical background in scalable distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
• Experience leading engineers working on technology challenges in multiple domains: networking, public cloud infrastructure, caching and storage, scaling high-volume systems, observability/telemetry, root cause analysis, capacity vs. cost tradeoffs, etc.
• 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
• Capable and willing to write software for a couple of months as part of your onboarding
• Experience setting up and running on-call rotations
• Strong communication skills; ability to bring disparate groups of people to a shared understanding