Overview

Every single day at Catawiki looks completely different from the last. One moment an authentic fossil crosses our platform, and the next it might be an iconic piece of racing history or high-fashion memorabilia. Behind this whirlwind of over 100,000 weekly auctions sits a sophisticated technical ecosystem designed to handle serious scale. We are hunting for a talented Platform Engineer to join our fully remote, worldwide engineering crew. In this role, your daily focus centers on eliminating developer friction, leveling up our cloud infrastructure, and ensuring millions of passionate buyers and sellers enjoy a flawless digital experience.

Our Platform Horizontal group has grown far beyond basic cloud management. Today, the team acts as the backbone for developer experience, reliability, security, and quality across the entire company. We believe developers do their best work when tooling is intuitive, automated, and out of the way. If you love building foundational systems that make other engineers significantly faster and happier, you will feel right at home here.

Key Responsibilities

You will play a pivotal role in shaping how our software gets built, tested, and delivered across modern distributed systems. Typical day-to-day focus areas include

Designing resilient cloud infrastructure and self-service platforms that allow engineering teams to deploy confidently
Improving continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines to reduce lead times
Advancing our observability practices, including proactive metrics tracking, tracing, and logging for rapid incident resolution
Partnering with application developers to diagnose architecture bottlenecks and optimize performance
Integrating security best practices and compliance automation directly into our developer workflows
Fostering a strong engineering culture through collaborative reviews, blameless post-mortems, and shared technical standards

Requirements

We care deeply about your practical problem-solving skills, curiosity, and mindset. You will thrive in this environment if you bring

Proven experience supporting cloud-native systems, container environments, and Kubernetes orchestration
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code principles using tools such as Terraform
Solid programming or scripting abilities in languages like Go, Python, or Ruby
An empathetic approach to developer tooling, treating internal engineers as your valued customers
Experience operating within high-traffic production environments where uptime and latency matter
Strong communication skills suited for transparent, asynchronous remote work across different time zones

What You'll Gain

Joining Catawiki means stepping into an ambitious scale-up with room to leave a lasting technical footprint. You can expect

True workplace flexibility through a fully remote global setup that respects work-life balance
The chance to solve intricate architectural puzzles at a scale of tens of millions of users
An inclusive culture built on psychological safety, direct feedback, and shared ownership
Continuous opportunities for technical growth, mentorship, and career advancement