Senior Platform Engineer

Tiqets; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Energetic, international environment

Office in Amsterdam center

Learning academy

Mental health support

Lunch buffet

Fitness activities

Company events

Museum discounts

Pension contribution

Job summary

Tiqets is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform Team in Amsterdam. You’ll scale apps, website and API with reliable, secure systems and empower developers with self-serve tooling. This is a hybrid role, 2–3 days at our Amsterdam HQ.

Requirements include 5+ years building production systems at scale, deep AWS and Kubernetes, and Terraform for IaC. Bonus: GitOps with Argo CD and GitLab CI, plus Datadog/Sentry observability and PagerDuty incident workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems at scale.
• Deep experience with AWS cloud and networking (VPCs, DNS, routing).
• Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for reusable modules.
• GitOps workflows with Argo CD and CI/CD (GitLab).
• Observability with Datadog and Sentry.
• Incident management with PagerDuty and triage of incidents.
• Experience building shared infrastructure for engineering teams.
• Living in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Ensure production systems are available, scalable, and performant.
• Drive security, resilience, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Provide observability and debugging visibility across teams.
• Improve developer experience with self-serve tooling.

Skills

Production systems

AWS cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Datadog

Sentry

PagerDuty

Tools

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Terraform

Job description

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

Who are we?

We are revolutionizing the way people buy tickets to unforgettable experiences at the best destinations all over the world.

Our technology makes planning easy for thousands of travelers 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 embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into our company fiber organically.

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.

Our values

• We are remarkable: Have fun, be creative and celebrate great moments!

• We are accessible: Communicate honestly and support each other

• We are adaptable: Learn, adapt, and pivot. That's who we are!

Working at Tiqets

The Infrastructure 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 scalable, reliable, and secure stage for the world’s best cultural content.

Your Impact

We have ambitious goals ahead of us. In your position, you will contribute to the following topics:

• Availability, Reliability, Performance: Ensure production systems are available, scalable, performant and operate as expected, providing service to external and internal users when they need it. Advocate for SRE principles and engineering excellence.

• Security & Resilience: Ensure infrastructure and tooling meet security standards. Drive security initiatives and best practices. Design and implement disaster recovery and resilience strategies.

• Observability: Provide visibility into system health and performance across teams. Enable effective debugging, alerting, and incident response

• Developer Experience: Provide infrastructure and self-serve tooling to create an efficient developer workflow and support best practices.

Requirements

• Strong background and 5+ years of experience in building and operating production systems at scale, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS, including a strong understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS), and the ability to design secure and resilient systems. Understanding of cost efficiency and trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost.

• Proficiency in container orchestration and hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, and comfortable designing reusable and maintainable infrastructure modules.

• Proficiency with configuration management and packaging tools such as Helm.

• Knowledge of modern deployment practices, including GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD and CI/CD systems like GitLab CI.

• Experience building and operating observability systems, and understanding of metrics, logging, and tracing (experience with Datadog and Sentry is a plus)

• Familiarity with incident management processes, using tools like PagerDuty, and are comfortable supporting triaging and resolving production incidents.

• Experience designing and building shared infrastructure or internal platforms used by other engineering teams.

• Living in the Netherlands

Bonus points

• Understanding of platform engineering principles, such as enabling teams through self-service, creating “golden paths”, and driving standardisation.

• Product-oriented mindset: ability to prioritise work based on business impact, make pragmatic trade-offs, and focus on delivering value.

• Strong collaborative approach: experience working closely with other engineering teams to co-create solutions, gather feedback, and drive adoption of platform tools and practices.

This is a hybrid role working 2-3 per week at our HQ in Amsterdam

Perks & Benefits at Tiqets

• Energetic, international work environment

• Bright, welcoming office located in the centre of Amsterdam

• Tiqets learning academy: skill lab, group & individual learning

• Mental health support through our partnership with OpenUp

• Daily fresh lunch buffet provided by Join Programs

• Sports activities: free gym, running sessions, boot-camp, football, climbing and more

• Fun, sociable company events in and out of the office

• 20% employee discount code to explore great museums/venues worldwide

• Pension contribution and travel compensation