Technical Systems Administrator at Faire

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 this role

As the Technical Systems Manager, you’ll play a critical role in improving stability, cost efficiency, and customer experience across Risk, CX, and Marketplace Operations as our workflows and system complexity grow. You’ll lead high-impact systems work—from automations, to routing and case management strategies, to ticket enrichment. This is a highly technical, hands-on-role that bridges AI, Operations, and platform development to create a seamless, intelligent experience for our teams.

We’re looking for a hands-on systems builder, who is equal parts AI builder, Zendesk expert, and systems integrator, who can design with vision, execute with speed, and collaborate with empathy. .

What you’ll do

Design and implement AI-enabled operational workflows that improve ticket enrichment, triage, routing, and automated decisioning.

Integrated LLM’s into team workflows to elevate team efficiency and impact

Own and evolve our case routing architecture, including complex workflow logic, escalations, and operational controls.

Architect scalable, reliable integrations across Zendesk, CRM systems, and Snowflake using APIs, webhooks, and iPaaS

Own platform health by monitoring data sync fidelity and proactively troubleshoot issues and outages.

Establish and uphold development best practices to ensure high quality code, stable integrations, and a strong foundation for future scale

Oversee the rollout of major feature updates across Operation platforms, ensuring proper enablement and adoption

Build and maintain operational data pipelines and quality checks that ensure consistent, auditable data flow across platforms.

Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders—translating operational requirements into simple, usable systems.

Support broader Ops strategy through thoughtful system design, operational UX improvements, and automation-first process optimization.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience building and operating case management platforms (Zendesk strongly preferred), including workflow architecture, automations, APIs/integrations, and reporting.

4+ years of operational experience supporting Risk/Fraud, Marketplace Ops, and/or Customer Support in a fast-paced environment.

2+ years building and shipping production AI/LLM applications embedded in operational workflows.

Proficiency in Python or JavaScript and comfort building services, automations, and internal tools.

Strong SQL skills with the ability to perform deep analysis and validate data quality across operational systems and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake).

Experience owning reliability for systems you build: monitoring/alerting, incident response, and safe change management.

Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts across diverse audiences—from engineers to ops leaders and customer-facing teams.

Strong collaboration and project ownership mindset, with a track record of delivering complex systems end-to-end.

Nice to have

Experience with orchestration/workflow frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, or similar).

Familiarity with marketplace operations and cross-functional tooling spanning Support, Risk, and Marketplace workflows.

Salary Range

New York City: the pay range for this role is $129,000 to $177,000 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.

Hybrid 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.

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)

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Technical Systems Administrator

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