Ashby is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to help scale its platform infrastructure as the company experiences rapid growth. The engineer will own end-to-end projects, improve developer experience, ensure reliability and security, and build systems that support Ashby’s mission-critical hiring software used by high-growth companies.
What You'll Do
- Optimize Ashby's 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 customer data
- Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while managing complexity and reducing downtime
- Work with business and engineering teams to define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs
- Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers
- Implement infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse
- Own projects end-to-end and impact core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience
- Debug thorny issues and make good technical decisions under scale
- Contribute to developer tooling and reliability
- Be on call in a follow-the-sun model
What We're Looking For
- Curious, rigorous, and problem-hungry mindset
- Ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight
- Experience building infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby’s current phase
- Proven ability to deliver projects independently without constant prodding
- Strong coding skills — must be willing and able to write and review code daily
- Comfort with debugging across systems: infrastructure, Kubernetes, databases, and application code (e.g., TypeScript traces)
- Excellent written communication skills — must be able to share best practices asynchronously
- Deep understanding of risk evaluation in system design and operations
- Experience with scaling systems handling millions of data points
- Automation experience across provisioning, monitoring, and release processes
- Familiarity with SQL — must be comfortable diving into complex queries and data models
- Belief in code-as-infrastructure and infrastructure automation
Nice to Have
- Experience at a high-growth SaaS company with strong retention and ARR growth
- Prior work in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles in startups
- Background in building secure, reliable, and scalable cloud-based systems
- Experience with event-driven architectures and data warehousing
- Exposure to developer experience tooling and internal platform abstractions
Technical Stack
- TypeScript (frontend & backend)
- Node.js
- React
- Apollo GraphQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- Datadog
- Sentry
- AWS
- Kubernetes
Team & Environment
- Small but mighty infrastructure team
- Engineers own projects end-to-end; minimal process; collaboration across product, design, and engineering; infrastructure team supports broader engineering org
- Reporting to Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering
- Minimal process with high ownership
- Engineers run their own projects from problem to solution
- Natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Focus time is sacred
- Lifelong learning, humility, and kindness valued
- Written proposals and async decision-making
- No project or delivery managers — engineers self-manage
- Engineers participate in hiring and take interview panels seriously
- Culture of coaching and growth over process as a crutch
Benefits & Compensation
- Work with a small, talented team building high-quality software
- Opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly growing platform
- Autonomy and ownership over technical decisions and project delivery
- Access to state-of-the-art monitoring tools and large datasets
- Follow-the-sun on-call model to balance workload
- Focus on developer experience and reliability
- Minimal meetings — engineers spend <2 hours per week in meetings
- Culture of natural collaboration and deliberate communication
- Investment in tools and abstractions that provide leverage
- Emphasis on building a diverse team
Work Mode
- Based in the Americas
- Async culture with focus on written communication; follow-the-sun on-call model implies global coordination
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
