Senior Platform Engineer

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga’s Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day.

We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 110,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.

• Taking ownership and driving impact 
• Being open to change and feedback
• Being passionate about our mission and our customers. 

About the role and team

A DevOps engineer? A SRE? What’s next? The industry is going through a rise of a new discipline and its adoption, so does Catawiki. Join our Platform Horizontal as a Platform Engineer!

Recently, our Platform Horizontal underwent a major transformation from solely “managing the cloud” to becoming the largest horizontal function within the company. Today we are proudly supporting various business objectives, including Reliability, Developer Experience, Security, and Quality. The team takes a holistic approach, creating systems and tools that developers can use to deliver applications seamlessly and reliably without getting bogged down in infrastructure complexity.

Joining Catawiki as a Platform Engineer means working at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations. Challenges are guaranteed! So, would you be interested in this opportunity to help us set and execute this long term vision?

What You’ll Do 

Your work as a Senior Platform Engineer will shape how Catawiki teams deliver value to customers, fostering speed, reliability, and security in everything they build.

Build a Self-Service Developer Platform: Design and maintain self-service platforms that abstract complexity, empowering teams with the tools they need to seamlessly deploy, monitor, and optimize their applications.

Orchestrate Cloud-Native Infrastructure: Manage our Kubernetes clusters and other cloud resources, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency with FinOps.

​​Boost Developer Productivity: Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates to accelerate development and deployment cycles.

Drive Reliability and Scalability: Implement best practices for fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling, ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently under all conditions.

Monitor and Improve Platform Operations: Use and enhance observability stack to ensure platform health and resolve incidents proactively.

Collaborate and Innovate: Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs and build solutions that empower them, while evangelising cloud-native best practices within Catawiki.

Who You Are 

You measure everything, implement gradual changes, and accept failure as normal. Being allergic to toil, you leverage tooling and automation. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others. Next to this you are:|

Cloud-Native Adept: Proficient in Kubernetes, cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), and container orchestration with a minimum of 2 years of production experience.

Automation Advocate: Skilled in automating workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). Observability Believer: You are experienced in using and maintaining observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) to ensure platform reliability, performance, as well as insight-driven improvements. Ownership is your middle name: You have a strong sense of ownership for platform performance, proactively addressing issues and striving for long-term scalability and resilience. Collaborative Thinker: A team player who works effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions. Adaptable Learner: While it’s practically impossible to keep up with all developments in the cloud-native ecosystem, you strive to continuously evolve with new tools, technologies, and best practices.

Why You’ll Love Working with Us

• Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business.
• Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.
• A culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.
• Celebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based.

Interested?

Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter. By applying, you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.