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Catawiki is a curated marketplace for special objects, auctioning over 100,000 unique items weekly and having sold 25+ million objects globally. The Platform Horizontal function supports reliability, developer experience, security, and quality across the engineering organization.
As a Platform Engineer, you will work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations to shape and execute the long-term platform vision. You'll empower Catawiki teams to deliver value with speed, reliability, and security.
Key responsibilities include:
• Build and maintain a self-service developer platform emphasizing developer experience, abstracting infrastructure complexity and providing tools for deployment, monitoring, and optimization.
• Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure by managing Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through FinOps practices.
• Boost developer productivity by building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates that accelerate development and deployment cycles.
• Drive reliability and scalability through fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling practices to ensure applications run smoothly under changing conditions.
• Improve platform operations and enhance the observability stack to monitor platform health and resolve incidents proactively.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs, build simple and impactful solutions, and champion cloud-native best practices across the organization.
You measure what matters, introduce changes gradually, and treat failure as a normal part of learning. You use tooling and automation to reduce toil and enjoy sharing knowledge with others.
The Platform Horizontal collaborates closely with product teams, favors self-service capabilities and reusable solutions, and treats reliability, security, quality, and developer experience as shared responsibilities.
This is a hybrid role based in Amsterdam with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office. Catawiki can provide visa sponsorship and relocation support for selected candidates.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Cloud-native expertise: At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Automation mindset: Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines, and working with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Observability experience: Hands-on experience using and maintaining tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry to improve reliability and performance.
• Strong ownership: Proactively address platform issues and work toward long-term scalability and resilience.
• Collaborative approach: Work effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.
• Continuous learning: Keep developing knowledge of cloud-native tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-moving ecosystem.
