United Kingdom; Belfast; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; Cardiff; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Leeds; London; Manchester; Oxford Remote (Country) £138K – £170K • Offers Equity

Ashby is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer, UK

About the Role

This role involves leading platform architecture initiatives, improving system resilience, and guiding best practices in a high-impact engineering environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of core platform services
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to identify scalability challenges
  • Drive improvements in system reliability and operational performance
  • Mentor engineers in platform best practices and technical execution
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies into the platform stack
  • Support incident response and root cause analysis for critical issues
  • Ensure platform compliance with security and data protection standards
  • Optimize deployment pipelines for faster and safer releases
  • Work closely with product teams to align platform capabilities with roadmap goals
  • Contribute to technical documentation and system architecture blueprints
  • Promote observability and monitoring across platform components
  • Participate in architectural reviews and technical decision-making
  • Help define long-term platform strategy and technical vision
  • Troubleshoot complex issues spanning multiple system layers
  • Foster a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
  • Ensure platform designs support global availability and low latency
  • Implement automated testing strategies for platform changes
  • Collaborate on disaster recovery planning and execution
  • Support capacity planning and resource forecasting
  • Drive adoption of internal developer platforms and tooling

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Remote with team coordination across UK hours

Team

Part of a growing engineering team focused on scalable platform development

Why This Role Matters

The platform is the foundation of all product services, and this role directly shapes its evolution, performance, and scalability for future growth.

What We Value

  • Technical leadership, clear communication, ownership, and a commitment to building systems that last.
  • Collaborative problem-solving and a focus on measurable impact.

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Ashby
Ashby builds intelligent and powerful talent management software that helps talent teams identify great candidates, move them quickly through the hiring process, and provide an excellent candidate experience. The platform automates and simplifies complex recruiting tasks like scheduling, data insights, and workflow coordination, enabling recruiters to keep up with demand.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 6 months ago