5 months ago
Remote, United States +11 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$232k - $323k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and scale platform infrastructure and developer tooling for Ashby’s growing product and customer base.
- Own platform projects end-to-end, including research, technical design, implementation, delivery, and ongoing operation.
- Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools to help engineers improve it.
- Create automated security and privacy guardrails for customer data.
- Enable canary deployments, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while reducing downtime and operational complexity.
- Define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs with business and engineering stakeholders.
- Ensure external-service communication supports retries and circuit breakers.
- Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture and a data warehouse.
- Contribute to infrastructure updates, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, monitoring, provisioning, release processes, and TypeScript troubleshooting.
- Review and submit code, communicate best practices asynchronously, participate in interview panels, and support engineers through developer tooling.
Requirements
- Experience building infrastructure at a later-stage company and working with millions of data points.
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Strong software engineering ability with a willingness to code, review code, and own applications at a platform level.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and deliver projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.
- Comfort evaluating and balancing reliability, security, flexibility, and operational risk.
- Ability to work across infrastructure, security, databases, Kubernetes, and application debugging as a versatile platform engineer.
- Comfort with SQL and data modeling, including optimizing reports or advising on performant data models.
- Ability to communicate best practices through written communication in an asynchronous culture.
- Experience debugging complex incidents and solving ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure problems.
Benefits
- Remote work with flexible hours, a low-meeting culture, and engineers typically spending fewer than two hours per week in meetings.
- Unlimited PTO with encouragement to use it.
- Competitive salary and equity, including a 10-year stock-option exercise window.
- At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US to meet regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office-furniture budget.
- $100 per month education budget, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
- $250 per month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
- Fully covered health insurance premiums 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, plus a small budget for regional or local meetups.
- A structured onboarding program with a peer partner, day-one product changes, training sessions, and 30-, 60-, and 90-day reviews.
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About Ashby
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.