Platform Engineer

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Mid-Level Platform Engineer to help us continue driving innovation and making an impact on the reliability, performance, and scalability of Farfetch's industry-leading technology. You must have a DevOps mindset and be passionate about automation, scalability, and infrastructure reliability. In this role, you will be co-responsible for the maintenance of several technologies that are crucial to the success of FARFETCH’s business.

• Design, develop, implement, and manage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling that empowers our development teams.
• Contribute to building self-service capabilities, abstracting complex infrastructure layers, and promoting engineering autonomy.
• Operate and maintain a wide range of infrastructure components, including Linux and Kubernetes-based systems, using automated processes and pipelines.
• Contribute to our culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for increased scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and provide solutions that accelerate their productivity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduated or higher in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or have equivalent practical experience.
• A strong interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to develop using programming languages such as Python or Golang.
• Familiar with the principles of the software development lifecycle and the concepts of infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and comfortable working with related tools/technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Git, ArgoCD).
• Hands-on experience with containerized environments and container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• A strong interest in one or more of the following domains:
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Provisioning and Configuration Management (e.g., Azure, Terraform, Saltstack)
  • Networking: Traffic Management, Load Balancing, CDN, and DNS (e.g., HAProxy, Kong, CloudFlare, Firewall)
  • Software Development Lifecycle: Automating builds, tests, and deployments (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory)
• Security-first mindset and an interest in compliance.
• Proactive, creative, and a great team player.
• Good written and verbal English communication skills.

BENEFITS

• Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
• Extra days off, sabbatical program and days to give back to 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.