Ashby

Staff Platform Engineer - Americas

Remote - US. Posted 5 months ago

The role

A platform software engineer will build a paved road for engineering teams and scale infrastructure. You will dive into scaling problems, add platform capabilities, and own projects end-to-end.

What you will do

  • Optimize the homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler
  • Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of customer data
  • Help developers ship features through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags
  • Work with the business and engineering team to define SLOs and implement SLIs
  • Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers
  • Implement the infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse
  • Perform infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, and Kubernetes debugging
  • Review and submit code changes
  • Manage projects end-to-end

Required qualifications

  • Experience building infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at
  • Experience with millions of data points
  • Experience automating provisioning, monitoring and release processes
  • Ability to code
  • Ability to use SQL
  • Ability to communicate best practices via written communication

Nice to have

  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, or Redis

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 10-year exercise window for stock options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
  • $100/month education budget
  • $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex
  • Top-tier health insurance for you and dependents (100% premiums covered in US)
  • High-quality supplemental health insurance for you and dependents (fully covered outside US)

Before you apply

  • All nationalities welcome
  • Interview process includes recruiter screen, introduction call, technical screen, and three non-coding interviews

About the company

Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. They have tens of millions in ARR and over 2500 customers.