Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.
The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.
Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

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
UK Benefits
Health + Mental Wellbeing
● Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
● Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
● Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
● Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
● Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer 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
Flexible Working
MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote.
● Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week.
● Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.
● Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year.
All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
You can also apply to work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries).
Family Life
● Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral. Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave.
Learn and Grow
● We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.
Your Future
● Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
● Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
And finally, as a valued Depop employee we waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.