About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is
local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than
Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these
massive entities. 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 the role
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 the role
Our Identity and Access Management team owns the end-to-end integrations of all
corporate identity. You will be responsible for driving initiatives that develop
the identity lifecycle, improve access management across corporate platforms,
and develop best in class tooling for the team. We care about good engineering
practices that are secure, tested, and easy to maintain that can scale to
thousands of users.
What you'll do:
- Define, drive, and implement a strategy for centralizing integration of our
identity and access management platform for all internal tooling
- Look for opportunities to create a self serve-application environment for
employees
- Assist with license management and forecasting
- Document, teach, communicate and reinforce procedures and best practices for
the IT team and offer technical mentorship and troubleshooting assistance to
junior team members
- Serve as an escalation point for the operations team
What it takes:
- 5+ years of experience working with modern identity providers
- Familiarity with authentication and provisioning methods such as SAML, OIDC,
SCIM and non-standard API-based workflows
- Demonstrated knowledge of Infra-as-Code (i.e. Terraform) architecture and
best practices
- Proficiency with the administration, integration and API capabilities of SaaS
and unified communications platforms such as Okta, Google Workspace, and
Slack
- Good understanding of Zero Trust or Beyond Corp concepts
- Ability to represent technical viewpoints to diverse audiences
- A passion for programming and solving problems with code (Python, Ruby, or
Go)
Salary Range
Canada: the pay range for this role is $115,000 to $158,500 per year.
This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be
determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work
experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range
provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Effective starting in January 2026, employees will be expected to
go into the office on a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or
Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work
remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology
positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in
the job posting.
Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from
the posting date.
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
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 Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers,
you can read more on our blog [https://blog.faire.com/].
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.
Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable
accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services,
programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the
recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be
accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all
applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request
reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form
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