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Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. 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 businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.\nWe’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.\nAbout this role\nAs a Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you will help design, improve, and operate a scalable ML platform to accelerate model training, deployment, and governance. You are the technical bridge between data science and production engineering. You’ll be joining a small but deeply critical team that scales Faire’s ability to support tens of thousands of local businesses in a constantly narrowing retail landscape.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign and operate ML infrastructure, including workspaces, clusters, jobs, and workflows\nProductionize ML workloads using Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Databricks Workflows\nTeach data scientists how to utilize our ML platform to advance development from notebook to production for our most critical models\nImplement Unity Catalog for data governance, lineage, access control, and secure multi-tenant usage\nBuild CI/CD pipelines for ML using Terraform and Git-based workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions)\nOptimize performance, reliability, and cost across training and inference workloads\nConfigure Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role Based Authentication Controls (RBAC) for sensitive data sets\nEstablish observability for data quality, model performance, and platform health\nBuild and maintain ML Platform technical documentation\nWhat it takes\n8+ years of experience building production ML or data platforms\nA degree (preferably graduate level) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related technical field\nStrong hands-on expertise with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.\nProficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed systems concepts\nExperience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code\nSolid understanding of MLOps best practices: CI/CD, monitoring, reproducibility, and security\nExperience supporting multiple ML teams in a shared platform environment\nAre an active owner of orphaned problems and are willing to assimilate whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done\nTech Stack\nFaire uses a modern cloud based tech stack. For this role, you’ll want to be proficient with the following:\n\nCategory\n\nTechnologies\n\nLanguages\n\nPython, SQL, Kotlin\n\nML Frameworks\n\nPyTorch, MLFlow \n\nBig Data & Processing\n\nSpark, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, Iceberg, Unity Catalog, Datadog, Airflow, Cockroach DB, MySQL\n\nCloud & Infrastructure\n\nAWS, S3, SageMaker, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform\n\nGenerative AI\n\nClaude Sonnet 4.5, ChatGPT 5.2\n\nSalary Range\nCanada: the pay range for this role is $216,000 to $297,000 per year. \nThis 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.\nFaire uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen and select applicants for this position.\nThis job posting is for an existing vacancy.\nHybrid 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 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. \n\nWhy you’ll love working at Faire\nMove fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.\nEquipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.\nBest in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.\nReal rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.\nBelonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.\nFaire 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.\nFaire 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.\nFaire 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 (https://bit.ly/faire-form)\nPrivacy\nFor information about the type of personal data Faire collects from applicants, as well as your choices regarding the data collected about you, please visit Faire’s Privacy Notice (https://www.faire.com/privacy)","description_format":"text","description_chars":6419,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T04:26:58Z"}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.356,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":139,"expected_fill_days":49,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":297000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/faire-staff-machine-learning-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/faire-staff-machine-learning-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T00:51:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":796,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4204,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}