Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in Amsterdam, with a minimum of 2 days per week at the Amsterdam HQ. Open to candidates worldwide; visa sponsorship and relocation support may be available for selected candidates.

Company

hirify.global is a curated marketplace for buying and selling special objects, with more than 100,000 unique items auctioned each week.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a self-service developer platform that simplifies application deployment, monitoring, and optimization.
• Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and other cloud resources, with attention to scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, reusable templates, and automation to improve developer productivity.
• Strengthen reliability through fault tolerance, disaster recovery, scaling, and proactive incident management.
• Improve platform operations and observability while collaborating with product teams on simple, impactful solutions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong ownership of platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to collaborate with developers and cross-functional teams and share knowledge.
• Availability to work from the Amsterdam office at least 2 days per week.

Culture & Benefits

• Self-service, reusable solutions, automation, and gradual measurable improvements are emphasized.
• Learning and development initiatives, mentorship programs, and career development plans.
• Work-from-home allowance and commuting costs covered.
• Inclusive, diverse, and queer-friendly environment with employees representing more than 60 nationalities.
• Additional leave, work-anniversary and life-event leave, and Catavouchers.
• Offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon, with hybrid working as the standard arrangement.

Hiring process

• Submit an English CV and cover letter.