Listing Description

About this role

Our engineering team owns the software that makes our marketplace work. 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 minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.

Our product security team works alongside product and engineering to design secure software solutions for Faire’s web and mobile applications. The team is responsible for analyzing systems, identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities, advocating for security across engineering teams and leadership, and influencing product design and architecture. 

What you’ll do 

• Directly manage a senior team of highly talented software engineers focused on product security


• Lead team planning, prioritization, and staffing processes


• Identify, design, and execute on high-impact initiatives to improve product security across Faire.


• Consult and assist other teams at Faire to design inherently secure systems


• Help teams balance security and product needs


• Empower teams at Faire with training and guidance on security best practices

Qualifications

• A wealth of experience building secure products and implementing strong security practices


• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.


• A strong technical background that you are still capable of using every day. 


• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems.


• A track record of leading teams to higher levels of contribution.


• A track record of assisting team members to achieve higher levels of impact in their careers.


• Still willing and able to get your hands dirty with software design, code creation, tooling, etc.