Ashby

Staff Platform Engineer - EU

Remote - European Union. Posted 12 months ago

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
  • Build systems that are mature and boring
  • Own projects end-to-end
  • Review code and submit code changes
  • Perform infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Typescript traces

Required qualifications

  • Build infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at
  • Know how to deal with millions of data points
  • Automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process
  • Be comfortable with SQL
  • Be able to code
  • Be able to communicate best practices via written communication
  • Be able to deliver a project on your own without being prodded for updates
  • Be comfortable evaluating risk

Nice to have

  • Swiss army knife

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 with pair programming, 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.