About the role and team

At Catawiki, we're building an internal developer platform that enables our engineering teams to move fast without compromising on reliability or security.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Developer Experience (DevEx) Platform team, you will design and build the tooling, systems, and abstractions that power how engineers develop, deploy, and operate services at scale.

This is not a traditional DevOps or SRE role,  it's a software engineering role focused on improving developer productivity and platform capabilities.

You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, helping product teams ship faster by removing friction and building scalable internal platforms.

What You'll Do 

Your work as a Senior Platfrom Engineer (DevEX)  will shape how Catawiki teams deliver value to customers, fostering speed, reliability, and security in everything they build.

Build a Self-Service Developer Platform: Design and maintain self-service platforms that abstract complexity, empowering teams with the tools they need to seamlessly deploy, monitor, and optimize their applications.

Orchestrate Cloud-Native Infrastructure: Manage our Kubernetes clusters and other cloud resources, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency with FinOps.

​​Boost Developer Productivity: Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates to accelerate development and deployment cycles.

Drive Reliability and Scalability: Implement best practices for fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling, ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently under all conditions.

Monitor and Improve Platform Operations: Use and enhance observability stack to ensure platform health and resolve incidents proactively.

Collaborate and Innovate: Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs and build solutions that empower them, while evangelising cloud-native best practices within Catawiki.

Who You Are 

You measure everything, implement gradual changes, and accept failure as normal. Being allergic to toil, you leverage tooling and automation. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others. Next to this you are:|

Cloud-Native Adept: Proficient in Kubernetes, cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), and container orchestration with a minimum of 2 years of production experience.

Automation Advocate: Skilled in automating workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

Observability Believer: You are experienced in using and maintaining observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) to ensure platform reliability, performance, as well as insight-driven improvements.

Ownership is your middle name: You have a strong sense of ownership for platform performance, proactively addressing issues and striving for long-term scalability and resilience.

Collaborative Thinker: A team player who works effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions.

Adaptable Learner: While it's practically impossible to keep up with all developments in the cloud-native ecosystem, you strive to continuously evolve with new tools, technologies, and best practices.