Senior Data Platform Engineer

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July 15

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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.

201 - 500 employees

📋 Description

• Data is at the heart of what we do. • Depop is looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help architect, build, and scale our data platform, empowering teams with self-serve capabilities. • You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape the foundation that supports our products and customers, enabling teams own, process, query, and manage their data with efficiency and ease. • You will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech and other Data Engineering teams. • You will help manage our growing data needs and support increasingly complex business problems by building and promoting self-service tools and data best practices that will be used across the organisation, including taking ownership of our data transformation and orchestration tooling; batch and streaming infrastructure and exploration tools (Databricks, Airflow, dbt) and look after our Datalake (ingestion, storage, governance, privacy).

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) with proven foundation in software engineering best practices - testing, clean coding standards, code reviews, pair programming, automation-first mindset • Experience delivering data compliance & privacy solutions ensuring that we uphold data subject rights for our customers • Experience introducing a data governance & observability stack enabling rich data lineage, data contracts, SLA/SLO, tagging and data quality monitoring capabilities both on our own platform but also for data owners • Proven experience designing, building, and scaling data platforms and backend infrastructure in production environments - have worked to enable advanced data users: ML Engineers, analysts, analytics engineers and have a strong grasp of their needs and how they operate • Big data technologies, with expertise in tools & platforms such as Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Databricks and data observability & catalogue) solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub) • Cloud Platform Proficiency: Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure, with hands-on experience building scalable, reliable data solutions on cloud platforms • A passion for learning new things and keeping on top of the latest developments and technologies in our field. We take pride in our learning and make sure to have dedicated time set aside for our growth and development (we offer personal development time and other platforms to share knowledge with your peers)

🏖️ 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, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love. • 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 • 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. • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!