Depop
Platform Engineer
Remote Platform Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 3, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalMiddle
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
United Kingdom
Role overview
Platform Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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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 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.
QualificationsTechnical
- 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.
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 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.
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 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
Family Life:
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time 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!
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