Ashby

Staff Platform Engineer - Americas

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3 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

201-500 employees

Ashby helps scaling companies achieve their ambitious growth targets. With Ashby, teams of all sizes can run a fast and efficient hiring process. Trusted by companies such as Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, Deel, and Modern Treasury

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