# Platform Engineer for Online Marketplaces — Catawiki
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 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.
Responsibilities
•Build a self-service developer platform with a particular emphasis 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.
Requirements
•You measure what matters, introduce changes gradually, and treat failure as a normal part of learning.
•You use tooling and automation wherever possible to reduce toil, and enjoy sharing knowledge with others.
•At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
•Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines and working with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
•Hands-on experience using and maintaining tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry to improve reliability and performance.
•You proactively address platform issues and work toward long-term scalability and resilience.
•You work effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.
•You keep developing your knowledge of cloud-native tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-moving ecosystem.
Benefits
•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.
•Learn and grow through Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.
•An inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.
•A €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to "Pursue Your Passion".
•Additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events.
•Benefits may vary by location.
