Senior Platform Engineer

Farfetch; Bordeaux; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance for the family

Flexible working environment

Sabbatical program and extra days off

Training opportunities

Flexible benefits program

Résumé du poste

Farfetch is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build and evolve the technology platform that powers our luxury ecommerce ecosystem. You will design cloud-native infrastructure, drive automation, and enable self-service capabilities for engineering teams across the organization.

You will work on scaling distributed systems, maintaining security and reliability, and contributing to strategic roadmaps while mentoring other engineers and promoting best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining complex platform infra.
• Hands-on with Azure, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for tooling.
• Strong analytical and collaboration skills.
• Security and compliance focused.

Responsabilités

• Design and build robust cloud-native infrastructure with automation and high availability.
• Drive self-service capabilities empowering engineering teams.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale systems.
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps aligned with company goals.
• Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence and learning.

Connaissances

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

Go

Security & compliance

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Outils

Azure

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Description du poste

Overview

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.

TECHNOLOGY

We're on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers an incredible e-commerce experience for luxury customers everywhere, understanding the motivations and needs of our customers and partners, to designing and testing hypotheses, to creating industry-leading experiences for luxury customers.

PORTO

Our office is near Porto, in the north of Portugal, and is located in a vibrant business hub. It offers a dynamic and welcoming environment where our employees can connect and network with a large community of tech professionals.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer in the Tech Platform team, you will play a critical role in building the foundation of our entire technology ecosystem. Your mission is to engineer a seamless, scalable, and reliable platform that empowers engineering teams to deliver software faster and with higher quality.

In this role, you will be a key technical contributor dedicated to evolving our cloud-native infrastructure. You will focus on driving the adoption of Self-Service capabilities and Infrastructure as Code to reduce cognitive load for our developers, while maintaining a high bar for security, resilience, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 & Equal Opportunity

• 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

• 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.

• Fraud awareness: Farfetch will not contact candidates through unofficial channels or request payments during recruitment. Be cautious of scams claiming to represent Farfetch.