About Depop
Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Founded in 2011, Depop's diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop. Powered by a team of over 500 people, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy and continues to operate as a standalone company, and is now part of eBay.
Role
The Platform Enablement team builds the foundations that help every engineering team at Depop ship faster, safer, and more consistently. The team owns Depop's developer platform - from service catalog and GitHub compliance tooling to AI platform foundations, incident management workflows, and the internal frameworks teams rely on to operate their services. As an engineer on this team, you'd be working directly with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS - getting hands-on with real infrastructure problems alongside a team that treats internal engineers as its users. Day to day, that means contributing to the Kubernetes estate, building and improving AWS infrastructure with Terraform/IaC, helping embed best practices across the engineering org, and building tooling that reduces friction for the ~300 microservices Depop runs in production. The role blends infrastructure engineering with a platform mindset. Success isn't just uptime - it's measured by how confidently product engineers can build, deploy, and operate their services on the foundations provided.
Responsibilities
Platform & Developer Tooling
•Contribute to the development and maintenance of Depop's internal developer platform, including service catalog tooling (Backstage), GitHub compliance automation, and AI platform foundations
•Build and maintain integrations between platform services and engineering workflows
•Write clear, well-tested infrastructure-as-code and automation under the guidance of senior engineers
Kubernetes & AWS Estate
•Get hands-on with Depop's Kubernetes (EKS) estate: deploy, configure, and maintain workloads, manage resource allocation, and contribute to cluster health
•Build and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform/IaC - covering compute, networking, IAM, and storage patterns used across the engineering org
•Contribute to platform guardrails and tooling that help product engineers deploy safely and consistently on AWS and Kubernetes
•Help identify and address gaps in the AWS estate - covering security posture, cost hygiene, and operational standards - working alongside senior platform engineers
•Build reusable Terraform/IaC patterns and contribute to the standards the wider engineering organisation follows
•Collaborate with product engineering teams and across the platform group on shared infrastructure patterns and standards
Reliability & Cross-team Enablement
•Support reliability workflows including incident management tooling (incident.io), observability integrations, and post-incident improvements
•Work closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and feed that into platform improvements
Growth
•Take ownership of well-scoped tasks, delivering to agreed standards with support from your team
•Participate in code review and contribute to the team's engineering culture
Requirements
Required
•Hands-on experience with Kubernetes - comfortable with core concepts (pods, deployments, services, namespaces) and day-to-day use of kubectl
•Working knowledge of AWS - experience with at least some of EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, or equivalent services in a real environment
•Familiarity with scripting or automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
•Comfortable with Git and GitHub-based workflows
•Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams
Nice to have
•Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Crossplane, or similar)
•Exposure to observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, or similar)
•Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
•Interest in developer experience, internal tooling, or platform engineering
•Exposure to incident management or on-call workflows
•Familiarity with Backstage or service catalog concepts
•Interest in AI/ML infrastructure or LLM tooling
Benefits
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
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
•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 (free) and a packing station with free delivery
•Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards
