Key Skills

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 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 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. What are we looking for 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. 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.

Core Responsibilities

Maintain and improve the availability, reliability, performance, security, and resilience of production infrastructure, including disaster recovery and observability. Build shared infrastructure and self-service developer tools that help engineering teams work efficiently and deliver software reliably.

Requirements

Candidates need at least five years of experience building and operating production systems at scale, along with strong AWS, networking, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment-tooling experience. They should also have experience with observability, incident response, and shared platforms, and must live in the Netherlands.