Senior Data Platform Engineer

OverviewData is at the heart of what we do. 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, and manage their data with efficiency and ease.

You will work closely with people from a wide variety of domains, as well as our Insights, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps, MarTech and other Data 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.

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What You''ll Do

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 Terraform, Docker, and cloud-native patterns

Lead Technological 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 attitude

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 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

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

Experience delivering data compliance and privacy solutions ensuring that we uphold data subject rights for our customers

Experience introducing a data governance and 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 and platforms such as Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Databricks and data observability and 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)

Nice To Have

Knowledge of systems design within a modern cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP) including AWS primitives such as IAM, S3, RDS, EMR, ECS and more

Advanced experience working and understanding the tradeoffs of at least one of the following Data Lake table/file formats: Delta Lake, Parquet, Iceberg, Hudi

Previous hands-on expertise with Spark

Experience working with containerisation technologies - Docker, Kubernetes

Streaming Knowledge: Experience with Kafka/Flink or other streaming ecosystems, with a solid understanding of their components

DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), IaC (Terraform)

Direct experience contributing to projects involving lakehouse / medallion architectures in Databricks

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 annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days

1 company-wide day off per quarter

Impact hours: 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

Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options (role dependent)

All offices are dog-friendly

Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries

Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees

IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn + Grow: Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more

Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees

Your Future: Life Insurance (3x salary) and Pension matching up to 6%

Depop Extras: Free shipping on Depop sales within the UK

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