12 months ago
Remote, Spain +19 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and scale Ashby’s platform infrastructure and developer experience.
- Optimize the DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tooling to help developers improve performance.
- 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.
- Debug infrastructure, Kubernetes, database, and TypeScript issues and contribute to application code.
- Own projects end-to-end, including research, technical specifications, implementation, delivery, and ongoing operations.
- Participate in on-call coverage, code reviews, interviews, and developer-tooling improvements.
Requirements
- Experience building infrastructure at a company later-stage than Ashby and working with millions of data points.
- Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Strong software engineering ability and willingness to code, review code, and submit code changes.
- Comfort with infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and TypeScript traces.
- Ability to work independently, make technical decisions, manage projects, and own outcomes end-to-end.
- Comfort working with SQL and advising on performant data models.
- Ability to evaluate operational risk and balance reliability with flexibility.
- Willingness to participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and interview candidates.
- Experience with or willingness to learn TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, and AWS.
Benefits
- Remote, low-meeting, high-ownership work environment with flexible hours.
- Unlimited PTO and encouragement to use it.
- Minimum 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US according to regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget, with higher-cost items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
- $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
- Fully covered health insurance premiums for US employees and dependents, and fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
- 10-year stock-option exercise window and equity.
- In-person department and company meetings at least twice yearly plus a local meetup budget.
- All engineers participate in a follow-the-sun on-call model.
- Interview process includes an introduction call, pair programming in the actual codebase, and technical design, debugging, and infrastructure interviews; no LeetCode or whiteboard exercises.
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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.