Data Platform Engineer

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. 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.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

Job Description

Data is at the heart of what we do.

Depop is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our growing team! Our platform receives 10,000’s of requests every second; we’re looking to cut through the noise, leverage this vast data, and find value.

We’re building scalable and robust systems to harvest, process and analyse the vast data within our tech ecosystem. With an increasing demand to service other areas of the business, and ultimately our 16 million users, you’ll be at the forefront of pioneering Data-as-a-Service.

Want to find out more about Depop & our engineering team?

We write about technology, people and smart engineering right here -https://engineering.depop.com/

Responsibilities

You’ll be...

• Building out our data infrastructure, in terms of scalability and availability
• Working on projects centred around real-time streaming with Kafka
• The go to person for questions about data infrastructure, mentoring other team members in terms of best practices
• Designing, writing and delivering software that enables data engineers to focus on solving core business problems
• Interacting with internal members of the Depop team to solve business problems

Qualifications

You will have…

• Deep understanding of AWS infrastructure
• Experience using infrastructure as code
• Experience building Kafka infrastructure and its tooling ecosystem
• Demonstrated a keen interest in data engineering and a track record of implementing data platforms at scale
• Experience with docker and orchestration
• Technical expertise with data processing technologies
• Experience working on large scale distributed systems design and operation
• Experience in data processing and building data pipelines
• Experience building and maintaining data lake in AWS
• A willingness to deliver user value quickly with quality
• A security first mindset

Technologies and Tools

• AWS - MSK, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, EC2, IAM, VPC and more
• Kubernetes
• Experience with using Terraform to design and implement infrastructure as code
• Kafka
• Scala
• Python
• Go
• Shell scripting and related tooling
• Good working understanding of continuous integration/deployment tools and practices
• In-depth knowledge of modern Linux systems internals (kernel, filesystems, network stack, systemd)
• Experience operating Postgres or another major RDBMS
• Solid networking theory (TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, IP packets, DNS)

Additional Information

Benefits

Health Mental Wellbeing

• Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
• Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life balance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to carryover up to 5 days
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
• We offer sabbaticals for our long serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working;

• We'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week!
• Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.
• Do you do your best work from home? You can also request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year *role dependent

• In the office, we provide healthy snacks, tea and coffee and the occasional surprise treats!
• All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend. 
• Apply to work abroad 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries)

Family Life

• Maternity Paternity Leave, plus adoption leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn and Grow

• We offer a personal learning budget for every employee and also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
   

And finally, as a valued Depop employee We waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop and also ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free using our team’s account