Senior Platform Engineer

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Design and build robust cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on automation, scalability, and high availability for our core systems.

Drive the creation of self-service capabilities, ensuring that the infrastructure layers we build empower engineering teams across the company to be autonomous.

Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems, guaranteeing the platform is robust enough for high-traffic events.

Contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps, ensuring the platform's evolution aligns with global company goals and delivers consistent value.

Act as a key technical partner for Principals, Engineering Leads, and developers, translating business needs into scalable technical solutions to accelerate global productivity.

Identify opportunities to optimize cost efficiency and reliability through automated processes and modern infrastructure patterns.

Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

WHO YOU ARE

You have a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex platform infrastructure and distributed systems.

You possess a strong technical background in cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD patterns (ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc), allowing you to make and guide complex technical decisions.

You understand the software development lifecycle deeply and have hands-on experience with development languages (e.g., Python or Golang) to effectively build tools for other developers.

You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a relentless focus on continuous system improvement and automation.

You have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical stakeholders across the organization.

You prioritize security and compliance as core pillars of a reliable platform.

REWARDS & BENEFITS

• Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
• Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
• Training opportunities
• Flexible benefits program

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

• Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. 

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