Ashby is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for the Americas to build a reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure platform for our growing product and customer base. You will own projects end-to-end, solve scaling problems, add new platform capabilities, and shape how our engineering team interacts with infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Own infrastructure projects end-to-end, impacting core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience.
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 developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while managing complexity and reducing downtime.
Work with the business and engineering team to define SLOs and implement the corresponding SLIs.
Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.
Implement infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse.
Debug thorny issues and build a future-proof platform that can withstand scale.
Do infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and trace analysis.
Share new tooling and best practices with engineers primarily through async, written communication.
Manage your own projects without project managers, seeking help when needed and cutting scope when worthwhile.

What We're Looking For

You are a platform engineer who codes (SREs are some of our best software engineers).
You have 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 processes.
You are comfortable evaluating risk.
You are rigorous, problem-hungry, and curious.
You don't take shortcuts and speak up for edge cases and future users.
You care about your work and your team and want to work with others who do as well.
You are a Swiss army knife, willing to tackle any hard problem the company faces.
You are comfortable with SQL (our platform engineers dive into reports and advise on data models).
You have delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates.

Technical Stack

Languages: TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js
Frameworks & Libraries: React, Apollo GraphQL
Databases: Postgres, Redis
Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Sentry
Cloud Provider: AWS

Team & Environment

You will join a small but mighty infrastructure team and report to the Head of EMEA Engineering. Engineers run their own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.

Our culture emphasizes minimal process with ownership over decisions, natural collaboration, deliberate communication, and investing in tools and abstractions for leverage. We put effort into building a diverse team and creating an environment where every engineer can be their best, run their own projects, and build high-quality software fast while working regular hours.