12 months ago
Birmingham, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Scale and evolve Ashby’s platform infrastructure to support rapid growth and reliable customer experiences.
- 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, feature flags, and reduced downtime.
- Define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs with business and engineering stakeholders.
- Implement retries and circuit breakers for communication with external services.
- Build infrastructure supporting event-driven architecture and a data warehouse.
- Perform infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and TypeScript trace analysis.
- Own projects end-to-end, including research, specifications, implementation, communication, delivery, and project management.
- Participate in code reviews, on-call work, developer tooling, hiring interviews, and infrastructure incident discussions.
Requirements
- Experience building infrastructure at a later-stage company and handling millions of data points.
- Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Strong software engineering skills and willingness to write, review, and ship code.
- Comfort working across infrastructure, security, databases, Kubernetes, TypeScript, and SQL.
- Ability to independently make technical decisions, deliver projects, debug complex issues, and manage scope.
- Ability to evaluate reliability and security risks while balancing flexibility and developer productivity.
- Comfort with async written communication and sharing tooling and best practices without relying primarily on meetings.
- No specific prior experience with Ashby’s technology stack is required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity, including a 10-year stock-option exercise window.
- Remote, low-meeting work with flexible hours and at least two in-person company or department gatherings per year.
- Unlimited paid time off with encouragement to use it.
- At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US based on regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office-furniture budget.
- $100 per month education budget, with higher-cost 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 in the US and fully covered supplemental health insurance in other countries.
- On-call participation follows a follow-the-sun model.
- Peer pairing, training sessions, and 30-, 60-, and 90-day onboarding 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.