Staff Platform Engineer - UK

The role

A platform software engineer will build a paved road for engineering teams to scale. 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 code and submit code changes
• Own projects end-to-end from research to implementation

Required qualifications

• Build infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at
• Experience dealing with millions of data points
• Experience automating provisioning, monitoring and release processes
• Ability to perform infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Typescript traces
• Comfortable with SQL
• Ability to code and review code
• Ability to deliver projects independently without being prodded for updates
• Ability to communicate best practices via written communication

Nice to have

• Swiss army knife skills

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
• High-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents

Before you apply

• All nationalities welcome
• Interview process includes an introduction call, a technical screen in the actual codebase, 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.