Lead Platform Engineer - Computing Platform

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry, seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to lead a team of engineers dedicated to evolving its cloud-native infrastructure, fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning, and ensuring the platform is robust enough for high-traffic events.

Requirements

• Lead and manage a team of Individual Contributors, focusing on their career growth, setting clear expectations, and fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning.
• Develop and implement strategic roadmaps that align your team’s objectives with global company goals, ensuring the team delivers consistent value.
• Drive the creation of self-service capabilities, ensuring that the infrastructure layers we build empower engineering teams across the company to be autonomous.
• Oversee the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems, ensuring the platform is robust enough for high-traffic events.
• Act as a key partner for Principals and other engineering leads, translating business needs into technical strategies and vice versa to accelerate global productivity.
• Identify opportunities to optimize cost efficiency and reliability through automated processes and modern infrastructure patterns.

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