Depop
Engineering Manager, Account Security
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Engineering Manager, Account Security
UK-based Engineering Manager (Account Protection squad)
Company Description
Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell, and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is to make fashion circular by ensuring that buying secondhand is as exciting and rewarding as purchasing new items.
Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has transformed the resale market, making it mainstream rather than an alternative. With over 56 million registered users, our platform helps people find great value, express themselves, and extend the life of clothes. We believe that everything you might want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it.
Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Depop operates as a standalone subsidiary of Etsy (since 2021), though we continue as an independent business. For more details, visit www.depop.com.
Depop fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity drives innovation. We’re an equal opportunity employer and make accommodations available during the hiring process.
About the Role
Depop is seeking a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our Account Protection squad. This mission is clear: make strong account protection the default for every user, ensuring buyers and sellers can trust and use Depop with confidence.
You’ll grow and shape this field, developing engineers, hiring talent, and defining systems and practices to combat threats like account takeovers, automated abuse, and scraping—while keeping Depop simple, trusted, and user-friendly.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and support a squad of 5 to 7 engineers.
- Establish Account Protection as a clear, effective capability at Depop.
- Own the team’s delivery, health, and product outcomes, creating clarity on priorities, risks, risks visions, and trade-offs.
- Stay connected with technical direction and architectural decisions, without needing to manage every technical detail.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Security, Marketplace, Trust & Support, and operational teams.
- Early visibility of risks, dependencies, and decisions to ensure alignment.
- Build an inclusive team culture, encouraging challenge, leadership, and growth.
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The role offers meaningful ownership, senior leadership support, and the chance to shape an influential area of product/security at Depop.
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for an approachable, thoughtful, and engaged engineering leader with a dedication to people, product impact, and technical quality. Key qualifications include:
- Experience managing, coaching, or developing engineers.
- A strong software engineering background, with comfort engaging in technical strategy, architecture, and trade-offs.
- Responsibility for team health, delivery, and product outcomes.
- Clarity and progress orientation in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
- Collaborative leadership—empathy, communication skills, and willingness to make decisions within disagreement.
- Passion for protecting users and fostering safer online communities.
We recognize that great Engineering Managers don’t always fit every bullet. We encourage applications from diverse paths into leadership, emphasising judgement and perspective.
While helpful, the following listed fields are not mandatory:
- Authentication & Account Access: Login flows, session management, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, WebAuthn/passkeys, device trust, account recovery.
- Account Protection: Account takeovers, suspicious login detection, credential stuffing prevention, risk-based authentication.
- Bot & Scraping Mitigation: Bot detection, scraping prevention, rate limiting.
- Edge Risk Layer: Cloudflare Bot Management, WAF, Turnstile, CDN, edge traffic protection.
- Reliable Production Systems: Observability, monitoring, implementation dashboards, incident learning, systems where reliability is critical.
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Perks & Compensation
Benefits
- Optional PMI or health cash plan with Bupa coverage
- Paid medical & psychological counselling through Self Space.
- Cycle to work scheme via Evans or Green Commute Initiative.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Mental health first aiders in every department.
- AI-driven talent sourcing: AI supports recruiters but no algorithmic decisions.
Working Environment
UK Benefits
- Dog-friendly offices across all Depop locations
- 25 days annual leave, with a carry-over option of up to 5 days.
- Impact Hours: Up to 2 additional paid working days per year (voluntary community work).
- Flexible working: MyMode model includes flex, office-based, or remote work options (decorate per role). Flex mode: You’re welcome to work on-site once a week. Remote: Once a year, comes to the office 4 times.
Family & Well-being
- 18 weeks paid leave for full-time Depop employees at children or adoption.
- IVF leave, shared parental leave, and emergency parent/carer leave.
Learning & Development
- Conference/focus budget, along with subscription access.
- Upskilling programs, workshops, training materials.
- Continuing upskills through company-led events, conferences, and meetups.
Compensation
- Quarterly performance reviews.
- Progress towards financial compensation (3x your salary).
- Depop pension match up to 6% of base salary through Aviva.
Depop Extras
- Free shipping on sold items anywhere in the UK for all employees.
- Use of the Depop Shop and In-Office package station.
Final Notes
Depop is an innovative marketplace committed to equality, diversity, and inclusiveness. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome reasonable adjustment requests throughout the interview process.
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