Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Description
Company Description
Depop is the communitypowered 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 whollyowned subsidiary of out more at
Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome no matter who they are or where theyre 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. Were 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. Were 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 . For any other nondisability related questions please reach out to our Talent Partners.
Role:
As the Depop community continues to grow on a globalscale 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. Youll focus on delivering highvalue projects and ensuring the design and implementation of the next phase of our platform meet high standards with our users in mind. Youll have the opportunity to make architectural decisions and drive improvements when better solutions are available. Our team values quick iteration and adaptation.
Youll 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 Depops 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.
OnCall Participation: Take part in our oncall rota providing critical support and ensuring service reliability.
Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvementmeasure automate and iterate on processes and systems.
CrossFunctional Collaboration: Work closely with crossfunctional 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 wellcomposed 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.
NonTechnical
Work with a product mindset: caring about user outcomes and making datadriven decisions.
Selfmotivated and able to deliver consistent results through problemsolving.
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 teams 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 companywide 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 hybridworking model with Flex Office Based and Remote options *role dependant
All offices are dogfriendly
Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
Family Life:
18 weeks of paid parental leave for fulltime 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!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
