Engineering Lead at Farfetch responsible for building tech solutions for luxury e-commerce. Leading a team in developing observability infrastructure and cloud-native systems.
Responsibilities
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.
Requirements
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.
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
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