Platform Engineer

At Catawiki every day brings the extraordinary! Whether its a or we encounter exceptional objects every day.

Were a oneofakind marketplace for buying and selling special objects! Each week we offer over 75000 unique items in auction carefully curated by our passionate inhouse experts.

Having sold over 20 million unique objects to date were on a mission to become the worlds most popular destination for special objects. As a growing diverse and sustainable scaleup we proudly live by our core values:

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

If these values resonate with you wed love to explore how you can join us on this exciting journey!

About the role and team

A DevOps engineer A SRE Whats 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 Youll Do

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

Build a SelfService Developer Platform: Design and maintain selfservice platforms that abstract complexity empowering teams with the tools they need to seamlessly deploy monitor and optimize their applications.

Orchestrate CloudNative 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 cloudnative 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:

CloudNative 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 insightdriven improvements.

Ownership is your middle name: You have a strong sense of ownership for platform performance proactively addressing issues and striving for longterm scalability and resilience.

Collaborative Thinker: A team player who works effectively with developers and crossfunctional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.

Adaptable Learner: While its practically impossible to keep up with all developments in the cloudnative ecosystem you strive to continuously evolve with new tools technologies and best practices.

Why Youll Love Working with Us

• Create a Visible Impact by working at scale in a global organisation that serves millions of customers across 80 categories. In our flat structure every role has a broad scope that directly impacts both our customers and the business.
• Learn and Grow with Us through our Learning & Development initiatives which include clear development plans and mentorship programmes designed to support your career progression.
• A Culture of Connection defines us. Were a passionate diverse and collaborative team of 800 Catawikains and 60 nationalities all coming together to build a oneofakind marketplace. We foster an inclusive and queerfriendly work environment committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered. Whatever your story we encourage you to bring your unique perspective to our team.
• Celebrate Lifes Moments with us at Catawiki. When you join us youll receive a 100 Catavoucher and on each birthday youll get a 50 Catavoucher to celebrate. Enjoy an extra day off each year to Pursue Your Passion. We also recognise significant work anniversaries (3 5 8 10 years) with additional time off plus extra leave for lifes big moments like marriage engagements or moving house.

Please note that benefits can vary by location. For specific information regarding whats available in your country please consult your recruiter.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire and connect. Most Catawikians are within commuting distance of one of our offices and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model. This means we typically ask you to be in the office 2 out of 5 days roughly 40% of your working time to collaborate and connect with your colleagues. Of course if the job description specifies that the role is 100% remotesuch as for certain expert or sales positionsthen that arrangement will apply.

Interested

Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page. By submitting your application you agree to .

If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.