Senior Platform Engineer, Catawiki
DevEx
2 days a week in office
Online auctioning for special objects
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Online auctioning for special objects
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide an exciting and seamless experience to customers for buying and selling special, hard-to-find objects.
Role
Who you are
- You prioritize developer happiness, smooth workflows, and self-service platforms
- You believe that empowering developers with great tools and environments leads to better products
- You enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others.
- Next to this you are:
- Platform Builder: You design solutions that enhance developer productivity and reduce friction, applying best practices like DDD, 12-Factor App principles, and modern API design. Skilled in building internal platforms, developer tooling, and paved paths on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS)
- Automation Advocate: Skilled in automating workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Observability Believer: You ensure developers have actionable insights into their applications through seamless integration of observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog) into the platform
- 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: Passionate about staying current with DevEx best practices, emerging tools, and industry trends — and eager to experiment, iterate, and improve
What the job involves
- The team takes a holistic approach, creating systems and tools that developers can use to deliver applications seamlessly and reliably without getting bogged down in infrastructure complexity
- Joining Catawiki as a Platform Engineer means working at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations
- Your work as a Platform Engineer 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
Our take
In the past, it was only possible to purchase special items such as rare coins, antiques, and vintage cars at auctions held at physical locations. These days, many people prefer online auctions, but whilst they provide a wider range of objects for sale, this comes at the cost of proper pricing and quality control. Catawiki provides an expert-regulated online auctioning marketplace where users can browse and bid for special objects easily via the web or mobile app.
The objects listed on Catawiki are curated, valued, and verified by in-house experts, with over 65,000 objects passing through the marketplace every week. In this approach, the company has combined the community knowledge found at traditional auctions with the benefits of digital auctioning platforms, occupying a space that has long remained empty, and avoiding competition from bidding marketplace giants such as eBay.
Catawiki has received good funding in the past, which contributed to it becoming the success it is today. A recent venture has seen the company expand to serve artisanal artists with its handmade products auction series.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$169.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2015
$84.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $265.3m
Company benefits
- Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties, boat rides and regular team events
- Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki
- Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activity-based working, suited to the team and individual responsibilities
- We care about our teams’ wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services, single-session therapy, wellness support and more
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth
- Provide employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers
- Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3, 5, 8 and 10 years
- Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving, engagement & marriage
- Each year Catawikians get an additional day’s leave to Pursue their Passion!
Company HQ
Westelijk Havengebied, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Marco Jansen
(Co-Founder)Founder and CTO of LastDodo, with experience as Project Manager for ThoughtWorks from 2004 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki as CTO in 2008.
René Schoenmakers
(Co-Founder)Founder & CEO of LastDodo and of Vipio. Managing Director of Ordina's subsidiaries Wisdom and The Missing Link from 2006 to 2008. Co-founded Catawiki in 2016 as CEO.
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