Platform Engineer

Tiqets; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 50,778 - 60,822; Full time

Job summary

Tiqets is seeking a Medior Platform Engineer to enhance their Platform Team in Amsterdam. You will be responsible for ensuring the seamless operation of apps, website, and API while contributing to critical areas such as tooling, monitoring, and security audits.

This role requires familiarity with programming, high-scale systems, and relevant tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. A strong passion for monitoring and automation is essential. The starting salary is €5,000 per month.

Qualifications

• Experience with programming/scripting languages and debugging.
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn about relevant technologies.
• Involvement with high-scale distributed systems.
• Understanding of horizontal vs vertical scaling and traffic management.
• Experience with automation tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, Gitlab).
• Passion for robust monitoring and logging.

Responsibilities

• Ensure pipelines run smoothly and introduce new technologies.
• Monitor health and visibility of systems.
• Participate in security audits and handle vulnerabilities.
• Understand SRE mindset for reliability.
• Build and automate disaster recovery plans.

Skills

Programming/scripting languages

Debugging

High-scale (distributed) systems

Kubernetes

Terraform

Gitlab

CI/CD Automation

Tools

Cloud provider experience

Job description

Tiqets is an award-winning tech scale-up headquartered in the Netherlands. We are hiring a Medior Platform Engineer to join our mission to bring the world more ways to culture!

Who are we?

We are revolutionising the way people buy tickets to unforgettable experiences at the best destinations all over the world. Our technology makes planning easy for thousands of travellers to find all the experiences they don't want to miss during their trip (museums, zoos, theme parks, and more), so they can book all their tickets in one place.

We are an international company committed to making culture accessible to our customers and our employees. We build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our company culture naturally.

These values are promoted from the inside out, and we strive to represent and honor differences in gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation in our company culture, our content, and our product.

Working at Tiqets

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.

Your Impact

We have big goals for the coming quarters. In your position, you will contribute to 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.

What are we looking for

• 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

For this role, we have a salary bracket starting from €5,000 per month. Your specific placement within the range will be determined by your professional background and experience.

Get in touch!

Please send your application via the form for this vacancy. We can’t wait to hear from you! Are you representing an agency? Thank you for your interest in our job offer. However, we are handling the recruitment process internally and do not require external assistance at this time.