Platform Engineer, Tiqets
2-3 days a week in office
Digital ticketing platform for museums and attractions
Open for applications
Digital ticketing platform for museums and attractions
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Tiqet's mission is to make culture more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Basic experience with programming / scripting languages and debugging
- A mindset that is curious, keen on learning and keeping up with all relevant technologies
- You were involved with high-scale (distributed) systems and you understand the nuances of horizontal scaling vs vertical scaling, traffic management and monitoring
- Any experience with tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, Gitlab), automation (CI/CD)
- Preferred experience with any cloud provider
- You have a passion for making the invisible visible through robust monitoring and logging
- Living in the Netherlands or willing to relocate
What the job involves
- The Platform Team is the backbone of our ecosystem
- You’ll be responsible for keeping our apps, website, and API scaling seamlessly while ensuring our developers have the tools they need to ship fast
- You won't just be "keeping the lights on" as you’ll be building a resilient, secure, and cost-effective stage for the world’s best cultural content
- We have big goals for the coming quarters. In your position you will contribute on the following topics
- Tooling: Making sure our pipelines run smoothly and we introduce new technologies where it makes sense
- Monitoring: Have good visibility that our systems are healthy and remain healthy
- Security: Involved with security audits, triaging issues, patching vulnerabilities, and responding to reports
- Reliability: Grasp of the basics of SRE mindset
- Disaster Recovery: Building, testing, and automating backups. You’ll create and validate the playbooks that ensure we can recover from any scenario with confidence
Our take
Museums and attractions might have had people tolerating lengthy ticket-booth queues in the past, but the rising tide of digital transformation has today’s visitors expecting more. With many museums in particular operating on precarious funding models, they can’t afford to lose visitors, so Tiqet’s simple digital ticketing platform should offer something of a lifeline.
Tiqet’s easy browse-and-buy selection of e-tickets to top locations across the globe has proven especially useful - both for facilitating greater footfall, and for converting visitors to repeat customers with data gathering and analytics. It is this latter point that may prove especially useful: with an increasing proportion of museums' and attractions' revenue coming from gift shops and cafés, rather than ticket sales themselves, they are increasingly pivoting towards a consumer model. Consequently, they will need to keep a tighter finger on the pulse of consumer demand.
What bodes especially well for Tiqet has been an impressive funding round led by travel giant Airbnb, which offered guidance and collaboration to the startup. The company has led digital transformation in a key aspect of the tourism industry, and has made several advantageous partnerships with companies such as Klook and RUNNR.ai. At the end of 2025, it was announced that Expedia would acquire Tiqets, allowing the latter to benefit from the global travel group's wide-reaching network of partners.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Young, energetic, international work environment
- Bright, welcoming office located in the centre of Amsterdam
- Competitive salary and paid holiday leave
- Tiqets' learning academy: skill lab, group & individual learning
- Annual company getaway to undisclosed location
- Sports activities: free gym, running sessions, boot-camp, football, climbing and more
- Fun, sociable company events in and out of the office
- Friday drinks
- Summer party
- 20% employee discount code to explore great museums/venues worldwide
- Pension contribution and travel compensation
- Everyone - employed at Tiqets will receive a monthly internet allowance for working from home
- Everyone - employed at Tiqets can reimburse home work space necessities
Company HQ
Jeruzalem, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Luuc Elzinga
(Co-Founder & President)Previously a partner and Co-founder at Think Too. Previously worked as the company's CEO from 2014-2020.
Maarten Raaijmakers
(Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)An experienced entrepreneur, they co-founded Splandingo and Mijn Register, as well as founding Minus3, before moving on to Tiqets.
Robert Westers
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously the Director at Nimbuzz Internet Media. Went on to work as CPO at Nimbuss and Paylogic International.
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