Senior Software Engineer - DevEx

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! 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.

We're a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects! Each week we offer over 75,000 unique items in auction , carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 20 million unique objects to date, we’re on a mission to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by our core values:

• Taking ownership and driving impact
• Being open to change and feedback
• Being passionate about our mission and our customers.

If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us on this exciting journey!

About the role and team

A DevOps engineer? An SRE? What’s next? The industry is going through a rise of a new discipline and its adoption, so does Catawiki. Join our Platform Horizontal as a Senior Software Engineer - DevEx

Recently, our Platform Horizontal underwent a major transformation from solely "managing the cloud" to becoming the largest horizontal function within the company. Today we are proudly supporting various business objectives, including Reliability, Developer Experience, Security, and Quality. 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 Senior Software Engineer in our Platform means working at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations. Challenges are guaranteed! So, would you be interested in this opportunity to help us set and execute this long term vision?

What You’ll Do

Your work as a Senior Software 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 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.