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Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.\nFounded 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.\nPowered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit www.depop.com\nWe 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.\nWe’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.\nAI 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.\nIf, 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 .\nJob Description\nDepop 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.\nYou 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).\nYou’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.\nWant to find out more about Depop & our engineering team? We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here: https://engineering.depop.com/\nWhat You’ll Do\nPave 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.\n\nSoftware Engineering: Develop microservices, libraries, platforms and tools\n\nTechnical Design: Architect and evolve platform services that enable teams to work with data efficiently and securely at scale.\n\nLead 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.\n\nUphold 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.\n\nStakeholder 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.\n\nInvest in others’ growth: Mentoring and sharing knowledge, helping elevate technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.\n\nBuild on our Engineering Culture: Take an active role in improving the engineering culture at Depop and encourage others around you to follow these values.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nAdvanced 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\n\nProven 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)\n\nAbility to think strategically and pragmatically: you can define long-term technical strategies and execute rapidly.\n\nExcellent 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\n\nExpertise in managing and integrating data orchestration and processing tools & platforms such as Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Kafka or similar\n\nExperience with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor etc)\n\nA 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\n\nNice To Have\nDevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), IaC (Terraform)\n\nExperience working with containerisation technologies - Docker, Kubernetes\n\nPrevious hands-on expertise with Spark\n\nAdvanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi\n\nExperience working with lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks\n\nStreaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink/Confluent or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components\n\nExperience 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\n\nA genuine curiosity about AI and a willingness to explore how it can enhance your day-to-day work\n\nAdditional Information\nHealth + Mental Wellbeing\nPMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa\nSubsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space\nCycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative\nEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support\nMental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting\n\nWork/Life Balance:\n25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days\nImpact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering\nFully 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.\nFlexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent\nAll offices are dog-friendly\nFamily Life:\nFor birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees\nFor non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees \nIVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave\nLearn + Grow:\nTwice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews\nLearning budget\nUpskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources\nYour Future:\nLife Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)\nPension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva\nDepop Extras:\nIn-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.\nSpecial milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!","description_format":"text","description_chars":9159,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Marketplaces","Secondhand"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T23:57:16Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; 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