Description
At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! We're a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our in-house experts.
As a Platform Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations. You'll help shape and execute our long-term platform vision, empowering Catawiki teams to deliver value to customers with speed, reliability, and security.
Your Mission
You'll build and improve the platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate applications effectively at scale.
- Build a self-service developer platform with a focus on developer experience, designing and maintaining platforms that abstract complexity and give teams the tools to deploy, monitor, and optimise their applications.
- Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, manage Kubernetes clusters and other 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 applying practices for fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling so applications run smoothly under changing conditions.
- Improve platform operations usage and enhance our observability stack to monitor platform health and resolve incidents proactively.
- Collaborate and innovate by partnering with product teams to understand their needs, build simple and impactful solutions, and champion cloud-native best practices across Catawiki.
What You'll Bring
- Cloud-native expertise: At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as 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: You proactively address platform issues and work toward long-term scalability and resilience.
- Collaborative approach: You work effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.
- Continuous learning: You keep developing your knowledge of cloud-native tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-moving ecosystem.
In Return
- A competitive Annual Gross Base Salary depending on your level, competencies, and overall experience.
- Meal Allowance Card stipend per working day, in addition to salary.
- Health Insurance from day 1 (including dental coverage), with access to multiple hospitals and clinics and a vast wellness network.
- A Work From Home Allowance to help with your monthly household bills.
- Commuting between your home and our office is covered by Catawiki.
- Amazing Office right in the centre of Lisbon.
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.
- 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.