Platform Engineer, Canada

About the role and how we work

Hi 👋 I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering. I’ve spent a number of years leading engineering teams in startups and always included infrastructure teams. I’ve built the initial infrastructure for startups and know the value a talented infrastructure engineer brings. The rigour, discipline and peace and quiet when everything just hums along.

Our infrastructure is in a good place for now. Everything is dynamic and we continuously add new pieces of infrastructure to keep up with our growth. As you’ll see, the platform we’re building is large and complex – it’s designed to power the hiring processes of customers such as Notion, Linear, Shopify and Snowflake.

As a Platform Engineer at Ashby you will:

• Optimize our home‑grown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler and create tools to help developers do so.

• Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data.

• Help our developers ship features fast through canary deployments, gradual roll‑outs and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.

• Work with business and engineering to define SLOs and implement the corresponding SLIs.

• Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit‑breakers.

• Implement the infrastructure to support an event‑driven architecture and data warehouse.

You should apply if:

• You obsess over a problem and apply thorough investigation until the solution emerges.

• You don’t take shortcuts, you always speak up for the future user, edge cases and do‑omsday designs.

• You care about the work you do and the team you do it with, and want to help each other improve.

• You have built infrastructure at a later stage and can handle millions of data points, automated provisioning, monitoring and release processes.

• You are a Swiss‑army‑knife – comfortable with updates, security, database optimisation, Kubernetes, Typescript debugging and more.

You should not apply if:

• You expect a lead or manager to make every technical decision and do not want to ship independently.

• You hate SQL and are unwilling to dive into data‑centric tasks.

• You do not get into coding—reviewing and contributing code will be part of your day‑to‑day.

• You insist on communicating best practices only in live meetings in a heavy‑process culture.

• You have never delivered a project on your own and rely on constant prompting.

We use Type Script (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo Graph

QL, Postgres, Redis, and run our infrastructure in AWS. Tools for reliability include Datadog and Sentry. All engineers are on call in a follow‑the‑sun model and contribute to developer tooling.

• Competitive salary and equity.

• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.

• Unlimited PTO.

• At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (longer outside the US).

• Generous budget for equipment, software and office furniture.

• $100/month education budget.

• Health insurance fully covered in the US; high‑quality supplemental insurance elsewhere.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and abilities.