Senior Data Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Company Description

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.

Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it. From everyday essentials to vintage and designer finds, Depop brings together a wide range of affordable styles in one place. It’s a marketplace where anyone can clear out their wardrobe or build a business, explore their style, and take part in a more circular way to shop.

As part of eBay, we're continuing to invest in our platform, our people and our mission to build a more circular future for fashion.

Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. For more information, visit our News Room here. 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. We’re 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. We’re 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 [email protected].

AI Disclosure We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.

Life is about creating. That's why we're home to over 30 million artists, stylists, designers, sneakerheads — and you? We're the community-powered, circular-minded marketplace changing the world of online fashion. Now it's time to get inspired at Depop.

Responsibilities

Job description

Job Description

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 to own, process, query, discover and manage their data with efficiency and ease.

You will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our ML, MLOps, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Insights, MarTech, Platform and other 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).

You’ll work with a modern, cutting-edge data stack and play a key role in shaping data-as-a-product practices. As we scale to meet Depop’s bold growth ambitions, you’ll help introduce the next generation of data capabilities.

Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here: https://engineering.depop.com/

What You’ll Do

• Pave a path for data as a product**:** Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data capabilities, observability and governance into the platform to enable decision making and ultimately better experience for Depop’s end users.
• Software Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, platforms and tools
• Technical Design: Architect and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely at scale.
• Lead Technological Initiatives: You will lead large, complex initiatives that will further enable our data users by setting the vision and roadmap, gathering requirements and defining the scope and success metrics for your initiative all while embracing a platform as a product approach.
• Uphold Operational Excellence: Automating infrastructure and monitoring, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable standard processes through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely to establish trusted relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our data platform. You will also contribute to group and peer-level initiatives to improve our data platform as a whole.
• Invest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Build on our Engineering Culture: Take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values.

What You’ll Bring

• 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
• Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling complex data systems and backend infrastructure in production environments within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Ability to think strategically and pragmatically: you can define long-term technical strategies and execute rapidly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you're comfortable influencing technical direction and aligning diverse stakeholders across the organisation - ML engineers, analysts, analytics engineers, Product, Marketing and leadership and have a strong grasp of their needs and how they operate
• Expertise in managing and integrating data orchestration and processing tools & platforms such as Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Kafka or similar
• Experience with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor etc)
• 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

Nice To Have

• DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), IaC (Terraform)
• Experience working with containerisation technologies - Docker, Kubernetes
• Previous hands-on expertise with Spark
• Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi
• Experience working with lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks
• Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components
• Experience working with data governance, observability and catalogue solutions (e.g. Monte Carlo, Atlan, Datahub) enabling rich data lineage, data contracts, SLA/SLO, tagging and data quality monitoring capabilities
• A genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work

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!

How we work

MyMode is our new hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them.

MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote.

Flex (Default)

Flex is our default working mode, meaning all employees will automatically enrol in this mode and there is no application required to enter this mode. Flex employees will be expected to work from the office at least 4 days per month. Teams will determine whether there are set weekly or monthly in-office days based on their operating rhythms and practices. You will need to work with your manager to determine your in-office schedule for your team.

Office Based

This option is for employees who are committing to work from the office for a minimum of 4 days per week. As part of taking on the Office Based working mode you will be able to apply for a permanent desk in the office if you need one, but you won’t need to apply to become an Office Based employee.

Remote

Under the Remote working mode you are able to work anywhere within the country you are employed in. This mode requires around 2- 4 days per year in the office, depending on organisational guidance. You will be able to expense travel if you are asked to attend the office, but not for office attendance by your choice.

Remote working is not applicable for all roles at Depop, please check with our Talent Team.

How We Care

• Your health
  • Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Leave, plus adoption leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave + paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Private Healthcare (UK and US) - choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
  • Subsidised counselling through Selfspace
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Mental Health First Aiders across the business
  • Life Insurance
  • Pension
• Your balance
  • Impact hours to be used for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
  • 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
  • All offices are dog-friendly
  • Flexible work modes: in Office, Hybrid, Remote
• Your growth
  • Individual learning budgets to support conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, and other development opportunities
  • Twice-yearly development conversations, alongside an annual performance review to support your growth and progression
  • Ongoing upskilling through company-wide training workshops, curated materials, and accessible learning resources
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that create space to connect, share experiences, and build community across the company

Location

Application Process

• Stage 1: Talent Partner Call This initial stage is a general conversation about your background, skills and what you’re looking for in your next role. You’ll gain further insight into life at Depop and the opportunity at hand.
• Stage 2: Hiring Manager Call The Hiring Manager is most likely the person you’d report into at Depop, so they’ll be delving deeper into your experience. This is another opportunity to learn more about the team’s mission and goals.
• Stage 3: 1st Stage Interview This interview is centred around assessing your role-specific skills, usually in the form of a paired-programming sesion, whiteboard session or presentation (depending on the role). You’ll meet with peers at Depop who can guide you through your day-to-day responsibilities in the role and answer any of your more technical questions.
• Stage 4: Final Interview Our final interviews are usually made up of an executive interview with a senior stakeholder. In this session, we'll dive even deeper into your working styles and the type of culture you thrive in, as well as provide you with more information around our mission as a company and how your role would contribute to this. Please note that the order of this process may be subject to change, based upon certain requirements or circumstances. If this is the case, you will be notified at the beginning of your process.

Our DNA encompasses the central reasons that people are proud to work at Depop and unites us with a shared language and sense of community.

It guides our daily interactions and empowers individuals, teams, departments and our company as a whole to have a greater impact and achieve our mission.

Show up for the community

We go above and beyond. When they succeed, we succeed.

We’re changing how millions of people buy, sell and explore their style, so we do everything we can to create a safe space in a community where you can learn, grow and succeed on your own terms.

Have each other's backs

We empower each other with kindness and respect our differences.

Everyone at Depop is seen, heard, valued and encouraged. Our genius is born from our diversity of thought, so we celebrate our wins together and hold each other up when things get tough.

Act with purpose

We take conscious risks, deliver efficiently and learn from our mistakes.

Our mission is to be the world’s most diverse and progressive home of fashion. We have the conviction to succeed, the patience to learn and the confidence to fail and try again - being open all the way.

Think thrift

We’re resourceful, seek out opportunities and we hustle.

We’re powering a future that is more thoughtful, circular and better for people and planet. To do it, we stay curious, savvy, resourceful and empowered to get the job done – effectively and responsibly.

At the heart of our mission...

INCLUSION

We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re 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. We’re 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. We’re 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 [email protected].

COMMUNITY

We know culture is felt, rather than told. But at Depop, you'll find a place where everyone can bring their own style to everything they do. We keep it circular as we recognise our impact on our community of sellers, our users, on the planet and on the future of fashion.

SUSTAINABILITY

Together, we’re shaping a new circular fashion system. One that’s kinder to people and to the planet. It’s simple. But it’s massive, too. It helps the environment, builds new connections and creates new ways to experience clothing.