Hybrid Senior Data Platform Engineer

at Depop

• Job title: Senior Data Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Microservices, Python, Scala, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Data Platform Engineer at Depop enabling teams with self-serve data capabilities. Architecting, building, and scaling the data platform for a peer-to-peer fashion marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Pave a path for data as product: Champion data as a first-class citizen by introducing robust data observability and governance tooling into the platform
• Software engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, data pipelines
• Technical design: implement and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely, using modern tooling such as Kafka, Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native patterns
• Lead technical initiatives: Lead initiatives working with end users: data scientists, ML engineers, analytics engineers, product engineers and beyond to enable, support and accelerate their data needs, embracing a platform as product mindset
• Uphold operational excellence: building scalable services, leading incident response and root cause analysis, and continuously improving the health and performance of our data platform. Champion scalable best practices through automation, clear documentation, and knowledge sharing via tutorials and training sessions
• Stakeholder collaboration: Work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions within our Data Platform. Trusted relationship will be key for success
• Invest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Build on engineering culture: You take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values

Requirements

• Streaming knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components
• Advanced knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) with solid 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
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter
• 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
• Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
• 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!