Platform Engineer

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🕒 July 15

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Depop

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201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

👗 Fashion

🌍 Social Impact

eCommerce • Fashion • Social Impact

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. Together with its community of approximately 35 million registered users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, Depop also has offices in New York and Manchester, employing around 400 individuals. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy, continuing to operate as a standalone company.

📋 Description

• 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 optimize 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. • Edge Security Posture: Define, drive and build a strong edge networking posture for our domains. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • Skilled in at least one language (ideally Python or Golang) and scripting (bash). • Knowledge of network infrastructure design. • Experience consuming RESTful web services. • A passion for security, reliability and scalability of deliverables. • 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. • An understanding of operating Postgres or another major RDBMS at scale. • Experience with Kubernetes. • Experience with a CDN provider and WAF (Cloudflare, Fastly). • Experience with other major HashiCorp projects (Vault). • Knowledge of modern Linux systems internals (kernel, filesystems, network stack, systemd). • Mentoring experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days • Impact hours: Up to 2 days of 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-dependent • All offices are dog-friendly • For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees • For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave • Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews • Learning budget • Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources • Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary) • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva • In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery. • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!