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IT Network Engineer

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San Francisco, CA
Mid level
San Francisco, CA
Mid level
Responsible for designing and maintaining Faire's corporate network, ensuring security, and enhancing employee connectivity experience across multiple offices.
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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

As a member of the IT Network Engineering team you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Faire’s global corporate network. This role will play a critical part in setting the foundation for future growth and standards of how Faire employees experience connectivity in-office and remote. 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:

  • Design, build, and maintain Faire’s global corporate offices
  • Manage connectivity between offices and Faire POPs
  • Work closely with partner teams to design the best employee network experience 
  • Have a keen eye for security best practices running a growing presence of corporate offices and cloud infrastructure
  • Exceptional customer service skills as you will be a point of escalation for the IT Operations team
  • Document, teach, communicate, and reinforce procedures and best practices for the IT Team and offer technical mentorship and troubleshooting assistance to junior team members

What it takes:

  • 4+ years managing large multi-location corporate networks
  • Strong knowledge and hands on experience working with networking protocols
  • Experience with Juniper (Junos) or Cisco (IOS) switching and routing
  • Palo Alto Networks firewall deployment and operating exposure
  • Wireless design and operating experience across any of the big platforms (Aruba, Cisco, Mist)
  • You feel at home tracing packets from endpoint to edge
  • Exposure to AWS networking and SDWAN
  • Demonstrated experience building internal tools utilizing Python, Ruby, or Go
  • Passion for driving continual improvement in our network. You are able to monitor and measure the health of your services with well defined metrics and dashboards
  • Good understanding of Zero Trust or Beyond Corp concepts
  • Comfortable driving multiple complex projects with varying requirements and timelines
  • Understands the importance of security, compliance, and privacy when working with personal data

Salary Range

California: the pay range for this role is $139,000 to $191,500 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.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, effective the week of January 13, 2025. Additionally, in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
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.

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 (https://bit.ly/faire-form)

Top Skills

AWS
Cisco
Go
Juniper
Palo Alto Networks
Python
Ruby
HQ

Faire San Francisco, California, USA Office

100 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA, United States, 94103

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