Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & AWS (Hybrid)

Depop Limited - Nova; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI

Subsidised counselling

Cycle to Work

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Insurance

Pension matching

Depop Extras: In-office Depop Shop

Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid

Job summary

Depop’s Platform Enablement team builds the foundations that help every engineering team ship faster, safer, and more consistently. You’ll work with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS—hands-on with infrastructure problems, Terraform/IaC, and tooling to reduce friction for Depop’s ~300 microservices in production.

The role blends infrastructure engineering with a platform mindset and emphasizes reliability, collaboration across teams, and embedding best practices across the engineering org.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (pods, deployments, services, namespaces) and day-to-day kubectl usage.
• Working knowledge of AWS services (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3 or similar).
• Familiarity with scripting or automation (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Comfortable with Git and GitHub-based workflows.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Crossplane, or similar).

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Git & GitHub

IaC/Terraform

CI/CD

Collaboration

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Git

Job description

Depop’s Platform Enablement team builds the foundations that help every engineering team ship faster, safer, and more consistently. You’ll work with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS—hands-on with infrastructure problems, Terraform/IaC, and tooling to reduce friction for Depop’s ~300 microservices in production.

The role blends infrastructure engineering with a platform mindset and emphasizes reliability, collaboration across teams, and embedding best practices across the engineering org.