Platform Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Depop

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201 - 500 employees

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.

📋 Description

• Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance, and availability of our services, providing guidance and mentorship as needed. • Design, write, and deliver software that enhances the lives of our engineers, improves scalability, and drives platform innovation. • Define, secure, and optimize the cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance. • Take part in our on-call rota, providing critical support and ensuring service reliability. • Define, drive and build a strong edge networking posture for our domains. • Drive a culture of continuous improvement—measure, automate, and iterate on processes and systems. • 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. • 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

• 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 • 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days • 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 • 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 • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave • Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more • Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary) • Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings • Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.