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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.\nWe’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.\nHaving sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.\nTaking ownership and driving impact \nBeing open to change and feedback\nBeing passionate about our mission and our customers. \nYour Mission\nAt Catawiki, our Platform Horizontal has evolved from solely managing the cloud into a broad function supporting Reliability, Developer Experience, Security, and Quality. We take a holistic approach to creating systems and tools that help developers deliver applications seamlessly and reliably without getting bogged down in infrastructure complexity.\nAs 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nYou’ll build and improve the platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate applications effectively at scale.\nBuild 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.\nOrchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, manage Kubernetes clusters and other cloud resources, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through FinOps practices.\nBoost developer productivity by building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates that accelerate development and deployment cycles.\nDrive reliability and scalability through applying practices for fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling so applications run smoothly under changing conditions.\nImprove platform operations usage and enhance our observability stack to monitor platform health and resolve incidents proactively.\nCollaborate and innovate by partnering with product teams to understand their needs, build simple and impactful solutions, and champion cloud-native best practices across Catawiki.\nWhat You'll Bring\nYou 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.\nCloud-native expertise: At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.\nAutomation mindset: Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines and working with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.\nObservability experience: Hands-on experience using and maintaining tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry to improve reliability and performance.\nStrong ownership: You proactively address platform issues and work toward long-term scalability and resilience.\nCollaborative approach: You work effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.\nContinuous learning: You keep developing your knowledge of cloud-native tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-moving ecosystem.\nHow We Work\nThe Platform Horizontal supports engineering teams across Catawiki by reducing infrastructure complexity and providing reliable, secure, and scalable foundations.\nWe collaborate closely with product teams to understand their challenges and improve their development experience.\nWe favour self-service capabilities, reusable solutions, automation, and measurable, gradual improvements.\nWe share knowledge and treat reliability, security, quality, and developer experience as shared responsibilities.\nWhere You'll Be\nThis is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from ourLisbon Huba minimum of 2 days per week.\nThis role is open to candidates worldwide. For selected candidates, Catawiki can provide visa sponsorship and relocation support to the relevant location, subject to eligibility and applicable restrictions.\nIn Return\nYou’ll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 800+ Catawikians.\nA competitive Annual Gross Base Salarydepending on your level, competencies, and overall experience.\nMeal Allowance Cardstipend per working day, in addition to salary.\nHealth Insurancefrom day 1 (including dental coverage), with access to multiple hospitals and clinics and a vast wellness network.\nA Work From Home Allowanceto help with your monthly household bills.\nCommutingbetween your home and our office is covered by Catawiki.\nAmazing Officeright in the centre of Lisbon.\nWhy You'll Love Working with Us\nCreate a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business.\nLearn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.\nA culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.\nCelebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location.\nOur Offices and Way of Working\nOur vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based.\nInterested?\nApply with an English CV and Cover Letter. By applying, you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply anyway. 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