MongoDB Database Administrator

Job Description

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
TECHNOLOGY
We're on a mission to build the technology that powers the global platform for luxury fashion. We operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose-built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide, addressing complex challenges and enjoying it. We're empowered to break traditions and revolutionise, with the freedom and autonomy to make a difference for our customers all over the world.
PORTO
Our Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and creative yet cozy environment. We welcome new ideas and a large number of our people. Whatever your skills, from Account Management to Technology and Product, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano during your lunch break!
THE ROLE
We are looking for an Infrastructure Database Engineer with a DevOps mindset obsessed with automation, scalability, performance, and infrastructure reliability to join our MongoDB database infrastructure team. As part of this team, you will be responsible for guaranteeing database stability, performance, and security building automation to manage all the database Infrastructure attending to the company's needs. Currently, the team manages over 150 VMs, divided into over 50 clusters in our MongoDB Infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work closely with the development team to plan new applications and maintain current ones
• Analyze database performance issues and come up with solutions to address those concerns
• Owning, tracking, and resolving database-related incidents and service requests within SLAs
• Support all the company areas ensuring all databases run with optimal performance
• Develop and build tools allowing the creation of automation to help with the team activities
• Manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of databases and platforms
• On-call to support 24x7 the company's Database Infrastructure
• Work with Agile methodology to support the team projects

WHO YOU ARE

• Graduated in Computer Science or another technical discipline or related practical experience
• More than four years of experience in MongoDB database development and production support
• Experienced in installing and configuring MongoDB databases, and general administration
• Experience with schema design, query optimization, index tuning, and backup solutions (Physical, Logical and Point-in-Time Recovery)
• You have experience with: Replica Sets (elections, read/write concerns, arbiters)
• Knowledge about sharding (shard key, balancer, moving chunks, zoning shard with pre-split chunks, etc.)
• Knowledge of coding in Python and bash
• Troubleshooting mindset
• Experience working in Linux
• Proficient in English - written and verbal communication skills
• Strong team player with the ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Experience with the following technologies will be considered a plus: SaltStack, Cloud Solutions (GCP/AWS/Azure), Git, MongoDB in Kubernetes and Terraform

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
• FARFETCH Equity plan

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. We continue to build our consciously inclusive culture as part of our Positively FARFETCH strategy throughout our business, partnerships and communities.

We are looking for an Infrastructure Database Engineer with a DevOps mindset obsessed with automation, scalability, performance, and infrastructure reliability to join our database team.