Ashby

Staff Platform Engineer, EU

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10 months ago
Remote, Spain +23 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Scale and evolve Ashby’s platform and infrastructure as customer and product demands grow.
  • Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create developer tools around it.
  • Build automated security and privacy guardrails for customer data.
  • Enable canary deployments, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while reducing downtime and operational complexity.
  • Define SLOs with business and engineering stakeholders and implement corresponding SLIs.
  • Ensure external-service communication supports retries and circuit breakers.
  • Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture and a data warehouse.
  • Contribute to developer tooling, monitoring, code reviews, and application-level reliability.
  • Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and debug production and infrastructure incidents.
  • Own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight and communicate practices through written documentation and code.

Requirements

  • Experience building infrastructure at a company at a later stage of growth, including working with millions of data points.
  • Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
  • Ability to work across infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and TypeScript troubleshooting.
  • Strong coding ability; reviewing and submitting code changes are part of the daily work.
  • Ability to independently deliver projects, make technical decisions, manage project scope, and seek help when needed.
  • Comfort evaluating infrastructure risk and balancing reliability with flexibility.
  • Comfort with SQL and data modeling.
  • Willingness to participate in interview panels and collaborate with engineering teams.
  • Previous experience with Ashby’s technology stack is not required.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US based on regional requirements.
  • Equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
  • $100 per month education budget, with higher-cost items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • Fully covered health insurance for US employees and dependents, or fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
  • In-person department and company meetings at least twice per year.
  • Small budget for meeting colleagues in the employee’s city or region.
  • All engineers participate in a follow-the-sun on-call model.

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About Ashby

501-1,000 employees

Ashby builds an all-in-one recruiting platform—applicant tracking, scheduling, sourcing, and analytics—for talent acquisition teams at scaling companies. It sells the software as a SaaS subscription with integrations across common HR systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company lists customers such as Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, and Deel.

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