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Catawiki is a curated marketplace for special objects, with over 25 million items sold and 100,000+ unique items auctioned weekly. The Platform Horizontal team supports engineering reliability, developer experience, security, and quality across the 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:
- Build and improve self-service developer platform capabilities, designing systems that abstract infrastructure complexity and enable teams to deploy, monitor, and optimize applications
- Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, manage Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources with focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through FinOps practices
- Boost developer productivity by building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates
- Drive reliability and scalability through fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling practices
- Improve platform operations and enhance observability stack to monitor platform health and resolve incidents proactively
- Collaborate with product teams to understand needs, build impactful solutions, and champion cloud-native best practices
You'll work in a flat structure with broad scope and direct impact on customers and business. The Platform Horizontal favors self-service capabilities, reusable solutions, automation, and measurable improvements. You'll collaborate closely with product teams and share knowledge across the organization.
This is a hybrid role based in Lisbon with a minimum of 2 days per week in office. Catawiki offers visa sponsorship and relocation support for selected candidates.
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Hands-on experience using and maintaining observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
- Strong ownership mindset with proactive approach to platform issues and long-term scalability
- Collaborative approach working effectively with developers and cross-functional teams
- Commitment to continuous learning in fast-moving cloud-native ecosystem
