Platform Engineer - NoSQL

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 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

We seek a Platform Engineer with database administrator capabilities and a DevOps mindset obsessed with automation, scalability, performance, and infrastructure reliability to join our database NoSQL team. As part of this team, you will be responsible for managing our database environments, optimizing performance, and contributing to the development of innovative solutions that enhance our database infrastructure, stability, maintenance, deployment, and security. You will work closely with development teams to ensure seamless integration and support for our applications from a database perspective. The team is responsible for maintaining over 1,000 VMs, divided into over 150 clusters for Cassandra and MongoDB.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Automation Development: Develop automation tools to minimize repetitive activities, improving team efficiency. 
• Infrastructure Maintenance: Contribute to maintaining, improving, and innovating features of the database infrastructure that are aligned with engineering requirements, ensuring robust performance and reliability.
• Process Optimization: Create components that remove complexity from team processes, promoting an efficient team.
• Self-Serving Data Architecture: Develop and maintain the tools for a self-serving data architecture approach, empowering teams to manage their data needs.
• Disaster Recovery: Design and implement disaster recovery mechanisms to protect data integrity and availability.
• Collaboration with Development Teams: Work closely with development teams to analyze database structures for new services and ensure the optimal performance and health of existing databases.
• Performance Analysis: Execute database performance analysis, identifying and implementing solutions to address potential issues and prevent incidents.
• On-Call Rotation: Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to help mitigate critical incidents.
• NoSQL Support: Manage and optimize NoSQL database Infrastructure (Cassandra and MongoDB), ensuring it runs efficiently and complies with security standards.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• You have 3+ years of experience with software development and NoSQL Databases.
• You understand the primary database operations such as backups, replications, clusters, etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with a positive attitude.
• Experience coding in Python, working in Linux environments, and with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with the following technologies will be considered a plus: MongoDB/Cassandra, SaltStack, Cloud Provider (GCP/AWS/Azure), Version control and CI/CD deployment principles, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Proficient in English - written and verbal communication skills.
• You are passionate about software engineering and databases and want to be part of a dynamic team.

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 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. 

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.