Auctionet is a marketplace where auction houses from Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, Spain, Germany, and Denmark sell furniture, art, design objects, collectibles, and much more. We are now looking for a Platform & DevOps Engineer who wants to build the infrastructure our engineers — and increasingly our AI agents — run on.
About The RoleWe're expanding our Platform & Infrastructure team, and a good part of what you'd be part of creating doesn't exist yet.
The foundation is familiar work: the infrastructure behind a marketplace used by over a million buyers, the pipelines our product teams ship through, and the developer experience that decides whether shipping feels easy or heavy.
The new part is AI infrastructure. We're building internal tooling and automation with AI agents, and we need to decide how those agents are hosted, sandboxed, authenticated, and given controlled access to our data and our product. That means building real applications and APIs, not only configuring things. It's close to greenfield — you'd be part of shaping it rather than inheriting it.
You'd be the third engineer in Platform & Infrastructure, alongside our Lead — who owns technical direction for the platform — and a senior engineer. Three people supporting a tech department of around 30, plus systems used well beyond Tech. That means you get real ownership early, and it means judgment about what to automate matters more than raw throughput.
Your responsibilities will include:
This role is based in Stockholm, hybrid (partly remote possible). Working language is English, and we'd like to start as soon as possible. On-call is voluntary and compensated.
About The TeamYou'll join our Platform & Infrastructure team, working across every product team at Auctionet rather than inside one of them.
We run our own Kubernetes on Hetzner, with additional infrastructure on AWS and an assortment of smaller services around the main stack. The platform carries around 1 million end customers, 80 auction house customers, and roughly 1,000 admins working in the auction house system every day — so this is real production traffic with real business hours behind it.
Our product teams build in Ruby on Rails, with Turbo, Stimulus, and PostgreSQL. We also have systems built with Elixir and Phoenix. We care about how we build: maintainable code, solid test coverage, continuous deployment, and the kind of well-established best practices that keep a codebase healthy over years rather than months.
Auctionet runs the leading online marketplace for European auction houses — art, design, furniture, and antiques. We have around 170 employees and are the parent company of a wider group with roughly 400 colleagues across multiple countries. Our main office is near Stureplan in central Stockholm, with logistics centres in Malmö, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Westbury, and Köln.
About YouYou like making other engineers faster, and you'd rather build a paved path than answer the same question twice.
To succeed in this role, we think you have:
Bonus and not mandatory:
You don't need to have done the AI part before. Nobody has been doing it for long. If you've built platforms for other engineers and you're curious about this, that's a strong start.
Benefits
... and a few more perks beyond these.
*How we hire*We see hiring as a two-way thing. We're mindful of your time, but we also want to spend enough of it together for both of us to get a real feel for working as a team — a short intro call, then two or three conversations with the team, and a small take-home exercise you can do in your own time. No whiteboard puzzles — we'd rather talk through real work together.
*Apply By*We will be reviewing applications continuously.
If you're excited about this role but don't tick every box, we'd still love to hear from you. Very few people match every point — so if you're close and motivated, please apply.
*Who We Are*Auctionet was founded in 2011 by a team of people with unique experience of online auctions. Read more about Auctionet here.
In 2021 Auctionet acquired the auction house Stockholms Auktionsverk, and we are now by far the largest auction marketplace in the Nordics, and one of the larger auction marketplaces in the world. With this acquisition, Auctionet owns and operates both the oldest auction house in the world (1674) and the second oldest (1681), which means we have been working with sustainability for 350(!) years.
Join us in our vision to make valued objects accessible for everyone, from everywhere!
