Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at www.depop.com 

Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

If, due to a disability, you need adjustments to complete the application, please let us know by sending an email with your name, the role to which you would like to apply, and the type of support you need to complete the application to adjustments@depop.com. For any other non-disability related questions, please reach out to our Talent Partners.

Role:

As the Depop community continues to grow on a global-scale, the systems and cloud infrastructure behind our product must be intelligently designed and built to withstand peaks and troughs in demand.

As an Engineer on the core infrastructure team, you will play a key role in this effort. You'll focus on delivering high-value projects and ensuring the design and implementation of the next phase of our platform meet high standards with our users in mind. You’ll have the opportunity to make architectural decisions and drive improvements when better solutions are available. Our team values quick iteration and adaptation.

You'll use tools like AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Golang, and Python to build the next generation of our platform, enabling distributed ownership of services among engineers. Your work will help create a robust infrastructure platform that supports Depop’s goals. 

Responsibilities:

• Empower and Mentor Developers: Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance, and availability of our services, providing guidance and mentorship as needed.

• Innovative Software Solutions: Design, write, and deliver software that enhances the lives of our engineers, improves scalability, and drives platform innovation.

• Cloud Infrastructure Excellence: Define, secure, and optimise the cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance.

• On-Call Participation: Take part in our on-call rota, providing critical support and ensuring service reliability.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvement—measure, automate, and iterate on processes and systems.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, and security experts, to align infrastructure with company goals and support seamless development and deployment of applications.

• Security and Compliance: Adhere to and promote security best practices and compliance standards across all infrastructure and processes.

Qualifications:

Technical

• Experience with Cloud, (AWS preferred) with defining, securing, and optimising cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance.

• Good working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Deployment tools and practices.

• Appreciation of distributed systems.

• Care about writing clean, well-composed, and tested code.

• Highly skilled in at least one language (ideally Python or Golang) and scripting (bash).

• Strong knowledge of network infrastructure design.

• Experience consuming RESTful web services.

• A passion for security, reliability and scalability of deliverables.

Non-Technical

• Work with a product mindset: caring about user outcomes and making data-driven decisions.

• Self-motivated and able to deliver consistent results through problem-solving.

• Demonstrates a good approach to continuous learning and improvement.

• Able to effectively prioritise competing demands.

• Be adaptable to a dynamic working environment.

• Continuously evaluate the team’s ways of working and contribute to its improvement and automation.

Desirable

• An understanding of operating Postgres or another major RDBMS at scale.

• Experience with Kubernetes.

• Experience with other major HashiCorp projects (Consul, Vault).

• Knowledge of modern Linux systems internals (kernel, filesystems, network stack, systemd).

• Mentoring experience.

Additional Information

Health + Mental Wellbeing

• PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa

• Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space

• Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support

• Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting

Work/Life Balance:

• 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days

• 1 company-wide day off per quarter

• Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering

• Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.

• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options *role dependant

• All offices are dog-friendly

• Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries

Family Life:

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees

• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn + Grow:

• Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more

• Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees

Your Future:

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)

• Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings

Depop Extras:

• Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.

• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!