Staff IT Identity and Access Management Engineer

Faire•San Francisco, CA

7d•$199,000 - $273,500•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Our IT Identity and Access Manage (IAM) 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.

Requirements

7+ years of experience working with modern identity providers
2+ years of leadership experience
Ability to represent technical viewpoints to diverse audiences
Experience working with APIs and event-driven workflows
Fluent in SAML, OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM
Demonstrated knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architecture and best practices
Proficiency in programming and solving problems with code (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Go)

Responsibilities

Own the entire identity lifecycle at Faire, covering provisioning, authentication, authorization, and de-provisioning, leveraging IAM platforms as well as custom automation.
Define, drive, and implement strategy for centralizing integrations to our IAM platform for all internal tooling.
Create self-service opportunities for employees to improve autonomy while maintaining security.
Document, teach, communicate procedures and best practices for the IT team and offer technical mentorship and troubleshooting assistance to junior team members.
Serve as a strategic escalation point for the operations team on complex issues.

Benefits

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.
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 an owner of the business and 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 Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo.
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.

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