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 1400 of the worlds 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
Were on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers the 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 Observability Engineer in the Tech Platform team you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the core of our telemetry ecosystem. Your mission is to provide a scalable and reliable platform for analysis detection and investigation empowering users across FARFETCH Business Units through self-service and comprehensive coverage of telemetry data.
In this role you will be a key technical contributor dedicated to evolving our observability infrastructure. You will focus on scaling data pipelines and storage solutions for Logs Metrics Traces Profiling and RUM reducing the cognitive load for developers while ensuring our telemetry systems maintain the highest levels of performance resilience and operational excellence.
WHAT YOULL DO
Design and build robust observability infrastructure focusing on the scalability high availability and performance of our core telemetry platforms.
Manage large-scale data pipelines and storage ensuring the reliable ingestion processing and querying of Logs Metrics and Traces using technologies like OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Fluentbit the Victoria ecosystem (Metrics Logs Traces).
Drive the creation of self-service capabilities empowering engineering teams and FARFETCH Business Units to be autonomous in their analysis detection and investigation efforts.
Ensure the reliability and performance of our internal observability stack making sure systems like Grafana and various exporters remain robust even during high-traffic events.
Contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps identifying opportunities to optimize cost efficiency storage and reliability through modern infrastructure patterns.
Collaborate and support the integration of Observability Frameworks (Audit Logging Monitoring etc) ensuring they fit seamlessly into the broader platform architecture.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence psychological safety and continuous learning within the team.
WHO YOU ARE
You have a proven track record of designing building and maintaining complex observability platforms and distributed systems at scale.
You possess a strong technical background in telemetry infrastructure with hands-on experience managing tools like OpenTelemetry Fluentbit Victoria Metrics/Logs Grafana.
You have solid experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (Kubernetes) allowing you to make and guide complex architectural decisions regarding the observability stack.
You understand the software development lifecycle deeply and have experience with development languages (e.g. Golang or Python) to effectively build tools exporters or automations.
You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a relentless focus on continuous system improvement infrastructure as code and automation.
You have good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical stakeholders across different Business Units.
You prioritize data security compliance and cost-efficiency as core pillars of a reliable observability 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 and free access to Udemy
- Flexible benefits program
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment 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.
SCAM DISCLAIMER
- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels other than our official careers website. Additionally Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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 1400 of the worlds best brands boutiques and department stores delivering a truly unique shoppin...
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 1400 of the worlds 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
Were on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers the 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 Observability Engineer in the Tech Platform team you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the core of our telemetry ecosystem. Your mission is to provide a scalable and reliable platform for analysis detection and investigation empowering users across FARFETCH Business Units through self-service and comprehensive coverage of telemetry data.
In this role you will be a key technical contributor dedicated to evolving our observability infrastructure. You will focus on scaling data pipelines and storage solutions for Logs Metrics Traces Profiling and RUM reducing the cognitive load for developers while ensuring our telemetry systems maintain the highest levels of performance resilience and operational excellence.
WHAT YOULL DO
Design and build robust observability infrastructure focusing on the scalability high availability and performance of our core telemetry platforms.
Manage large-scale data pipelines and storage ensuring the reliable ingestion processing and querying of Logs Metrics and Traces using technologies like OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Fluentbit the Victoria ecosystem (Metrics Logs Traces).
Drive the creation of self-service capabilities empowering engineering teams and FARFETCH Business Units to be autonomous in their analysis detection and investigation efforts.
Ensure the reliability and performance of our internal observability stack making sure systems like Grafana and various exporters remain robust even during high-traffic events.
Contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps identifying opportunities to optimize cost efficiency storage and reliability through modern infrastructure patterns.
Collaborate and support the integration of Observability Frameworks (Audit Logging Monitoring etc) ensuring they fit seamlessly into the broader platform architecture.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence psychological safety and continuous learning within the team.
WHO YOU ARE
You have a proven track record of designing building and maintaining complex observability platforms and distributed systems at scale.
You possess a strong technical background in telemetry infrastructure with hands-on experience managing tools like OpenTelemetry Fluentbit Victoria Metrics/Logs Grafana.
You have solid experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (Kubernetes) allowing you to make and guide complex architectural decisions regarding the observability stack.
You understand the software development lifecycle deeply and have experience with development languages (e.g. Golang or Python) to effectively build tools exporters or automations.
You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a relentless focus on continuous system improvement infrastructure as code and automation.
You have good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical stakeholders across different Business Units.
You prioritize data security compliance and cost-efficiency as core pillars of a reliable observability 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 and free access to Udemy
- Flexible benefits program
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment 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.
SCAM DISCLAIMER
- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels other than our official careers website. Additionally Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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