Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

TomTom; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development budget

Paid leave for learning

Flexible working options

Competitive holiday plan

Home office setup budget

Job summary

A leading navigation technology company in Amsterdam is seeking a Software Engineer to design and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform. Responsibilities include ensuring secure environments and maintaining infrastructure on Azure Kubernetes Service. The ideal candidate has 1-4 years of software engineering experience, strong Kubernetes skills, and a good understanding of distributed systems. This position offers flexible work options, a personal development budget, and a commitment to work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform.
• Contribute to cluster architecture and platform reliability.
• Implement networking solutions using Gateway API.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native infrastructure

Software engineering

Observability

Networking

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Job description

We build and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform that enables engineering teams across the company to deploy and run workloads at scale.

What you'll do

• Work with a team of highly experienced engineers to design, build, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform
• Drive the architecture and evolution of secure, isolated, and scalable multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, ensuring strong workload separation and resource governance
• Contribute to cluster architecture, tenant isolation, and platform reliability improvements
• Build and maintain scalable and highly available infrastructure on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Improve platform observability using OpenTelemetry (logs/traces) and VictoriaMetrics (metrics)
• Implement and evolve networking solutions using Gateway API and Istio Ambient Mesh
• Enforce platform security and governance using Kyverno policies
• Work with GitOps-based deployment workflows using Flux, ensuring declarative, version-controlled platform and workload management
• Work closely with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives
• Build iteratively in an agile environment

What You’ll Need

• 1–4 years of software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (multi-tenant environments preferred)
• Good understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems
• Experience with observability, networking, or platform engineering concepts
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and system design
• Ability to communicate effectively in English

Nice to Have

• Experience with Go or TypeScript
• Interest in building AI agents or automation tooling for platform operations
• Passion for large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering

What we offer

A competitive compensation package, of course.

Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.

Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.

Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.

Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.

Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.

Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.

Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.

Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!

Meet your team

We're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.

At TomTom...

You’ll help people find their way in the world.

Work with a team of 3,300+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.