Depop

Associate Platform Engineer

Depop

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerGoJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonShell ScriptingTerraform

About the role

  • Support platform operations: Assist with maintaining critical platform capabilities (Github, incident.io, JFrog, Jenkins to name a few)
  • Observability and reliability: Contribute to managing Datadog dashboards, alerts, and logging patterns to improve visibility across services.
  • Security and compliance: Help enforce best practices for secure and compliant service hosting within Kubernetes.
  • Developer enablement: Work closely with product engineers to improve their experience running services on our platform.
  • Continuous improvement: Participate in incident management and platform reliability culture, automation, and process improvements.
  • Learning & growth: Develop expertise in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform engineering under mentorship from senior team members.

Requirements

  • Fundamentals in software engineering (e.g., one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, or JavaScript).
  • Basic understanding of Linux systems and shell scripting.
  • Exposure to or interest in Kubernetes and containerisation - familiarity with Docker is a plus.
  • Awareness of CI/CD concepts (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar).
  • Interest in observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing) – familiarity with Datadog is a plus.
  • Interest in improving and refining incident management processes
  • Interest in improving developer experience
  • Understanding of cloud platforms at a conceptual level - familiarity with AWS is a plus.
  • Good problem-solving skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.
  • Nice-to-haves: Experience working with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
  • Hands-on exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm).
  • Awareness of security and compliance considerations in cloud environments.
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGoJavaScriptLinuxshell scriptingKubernetesDockerCI/CDTerraformHelm
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationlearningdeveloper experience improvementincident managementprocess improvementmentorship