Senior Platform Engineer
FARFETCH
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Porto • Portugal
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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 and free access to Udemy
- Flexible benefits program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructurecontainer orchestrationKubernetesCI/CDArgoCDJenkinsPythonGolangautomationdistributed systems
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsinterpersonal skillscommunication skillscollaborationinfluencetechnical mentorshipcontinuous learningpsychological safetytechnical excellence