Prematch is hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure platform that supports our rapid growth. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and security of our systems, impacting core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience. This role involves deep ownership, from solving scaling problems to evolving platform capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Optimize our homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools to help developers do so.
- Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data.
- Help our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.
- Work with the business and the engineering team to define SLOs and implement the corresponding SLIs.
- Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.
- Implement the infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse.
- Own projects end-to-end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience.
- Dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure.
- Make good decisions, debug thorny issues, and build a future-proof platform that can withstand scale.
- Do infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Typescript traces.
- Review code and submit code changes as part of your day to day.
- Share new tooling and best practices with engineers asynchronously via written communication and code.
- Manage your own projects, seek help to get unstuck, and cut scope when worthwhile.
What We're Looking For
- You are curious, rigorous, and problem-hungry.
- You are a platform engineer who codes.
- You want to build a 'paved road' that excellent engineering teams can safely take.
- You never stop and get obsessed with problems until you solve them.
- You don't take shortcuts and speak up for edge cases and future users.
- You care about what you do and the team you do it with.
- You've built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby, dealing with millions of data points.
- You have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process.
- You are a Swiss army knife willing to tackle every hard problem the company faces.
- You are comfortable evaluating risk.
- You are willing to be on call in a follow-the-sun model.
- You can deliver a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates.
- You are willing to make your own decisions on what the best paved road to build is.
- You are willing to code and review code.
- You are comfortable with SQL.
Technical Stack
- TypeScript (frontend & backend)
- Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL
- Postgres, Redis
- Datadog, Sentry
- AWS
Team & Environment
You'll join a small but mighty infrastructure team that is part of the engineering organization, doing both Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering. You will report to Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering.
Work Mode
This is a global, Americas-based role, operating within a remote-first work model.
Prematch is motivated by a belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast while working regular hours. We have minimal process, with engineers taking ownership over decisions normally made by product and design. We invest in tools and abstractions for leverage, collaborate naturally and communicate deliberately, and put effort into building a diverse team.
