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Platform Engineer

Depop
Remote, GBR
Full-time
Mid · 5+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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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.

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, 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.
  • 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 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
  • Family Life:
  • 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
  • Learn + Grow:
  • 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
  • Depop Extras:
  • In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
  • Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Cloud, (AWS preferred) with defining, securing, and optimising cloud infrastructure that supports our platform, ensuring high availability and performance.

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