10 months ago
London, United Kingdom or Cambridge, MA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Scale and extend Ashby’s infrastructure and build a future-proof platform for growing customer and engineering needs.
- Build infrastructure-as-code and improve how engineering teams interact with infrastructure.
- Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create developer optimization tools.
- Create automated security and privacy guardrails for customer data.
- Enable canary deployments, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while reducing downtime and managing complexity.
- Define service-level objectives and implement corresponding service-level indicators 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 incidents and infrastructure issues, contribute to developer tooling, and participate in follow-the-sun on-call.
- Own projects from research through implementation with minimal oversight.
Requirements
- Experience building infrastructure at a later-stage company and handling millions of data points.
- Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Strong coding ability and willingness to review and submit code changes.
- Ability to work across infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and TypeScript traces.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions, deliver projects end-to-end, manage scope, and seek help when needed.
- Comfort with SQL and advising engineers on performant data models.
- Ability to evaluate operational risk and balance reliability with flexibility.
- Willingness to participate in interviews and help select future colleagues.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- 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 higher-cost items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
- Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents, with supplemental coverage outside the US.
- In-person company and department gatherings at least twice per year, plus a small budget for regional meetups.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.