5 months ago
Remote, United States +11 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$232k - $323k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and scale platform infrastructure and developer tooling as a hands-on software engineer.
- Own infrastructure projects end-to-end, including research, technical design, implementation, delivery, and ongoing operation.
- Optimize Ashby’s DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools that help developers improve its 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.
- Perform infrastructure updates, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, monitoring, and release-process automation.
- Participate in on-call coverage, code reviews, hiring interviews, and developer-experience improvements.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure at a later-stage scale, including systems handling millions of data points.
- Strong software engineering and coding ability, including reviewing and submitting code changes.
- Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Comfort evaluating technical risk, debugging complex issues, and making independent decisions.
- Ability to work with SQL, database performance and data modeling, Kubernetes, and TypeScript traces.
- Ability to independently deliver projects, manage scope, seek help when blocked, and communicate effectively in an asynchronous environment.
- Willingness to work across infrastructure, security, reliability, databases, developer tooling, and application-level systems.
- Experience with or willingness to learn Ashby’s technology stack; previous experience with the listed stack is not required.
Benefits
- Remote, low-meeting, high-ownership work environment with flexible hours.
- Unlimited PTO with encouragement to use it.
- At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with potentially longer leave outside the US according to regional requirements.
- Competitive salary and equity, including a 10-year stock-option exercise window.
- 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.
- US employees receive health insurance for themselves and dependents with 100% of premiums covered; employees in other countries receive fully covered supplemental health insurance.
- The company meets in person at least twice per year and provides a small regional or city meetup budget.
- Follow-the-sun on-call model for all engineers.
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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.