Senior Staff Engineer - Product Security

About Faire Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. 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. 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 this role: Faire operates at serious scale — a global marketplace handling real money movement, sensitive business data, and the financial futures of hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands. Security here isn't a compliance checkbox. It's a core part of how we build, and how we grow. We've built solid security foundations. Now we're looking for someone to take them to the next level — designing the architecture and automation that lets product engineers build securely by default, without friction. If you're energized by the challenge of making security invisible to developers while making it impossible to skip, this role was written for you. Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Product Security team enables product engineering teams to develop and deploy secure software that makes that happen. We care about good engineering practice and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and can scale to millions of users. We build scalable, reusable frameworks; consult with product teams; listen to the data; and iterate. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Product Security, you'll be the technical lead for the Product Security domain — owning the long-term direction for how security is designed, built, and automated across Faire's entire application stack. You will partner closely with Platform and Product Engineering teams to identify and mitigate security risks, lead major security initiatives, and mentor engineers across the company to raise the bar on secure engineering practices. You will also drive cross-functional programs to ensure security is deeply integrated into our architecture, pipelines, and developer experience — reducing risk while maintaining velocity. Why now: Faire has spent the last few years scaling fast — expanding globally, growing to hundreds of thousands of retailers and brands, and building the infrastructure to match. Security has kept pace, but we've reached an inflection point. The foundations are in place. What's next requires a different kind of thinking: less reactive, more architectural. Less manual review, more automation baked into every pipeline and framework from day one. At the same time, this is a role with room to grow. We're hiring at Senior Staff — a level above what currently exists on the team — because we need someone who can elevate the technical bar across the board and, over time, extend that leadership into infrastructure security as well. The person who takes this seat won't just be joining a team. They'll be defining what the team becomes. What you'll own: Set the long-term technical direction for application security at Faire, establishing scalable, developer-friendly frameworks and principles that enable secure development across all product areas. This role also provides the candidate the opportunity to expand technical leadership scope to infrastructure security. Lead the design and implementation of high-impact, reusable frameworks for security use cases such as authentication, authorization, secrets management, and data protection. Architect and automate security controls within our d