Platform Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem‑hungry platform engineer who codes to build the future‑proof infrastructure that powers Ashby’s hiring platform.

• Optimize our homegrown 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 deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.
• Work with the business and engineering team 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.

• Persevering solve‑the‑problem mentality: obsessed with finding solutions to unclear challenges.
• High integrity: refuse shortcuts, advocate for future‑user impact and robust solutions.
• Passion for teamwork, deep respect for colleagues, and a desire to elevate those around them.
• Experience building infrastructure at scale, managing millions of data points, and automating provisioning, monitoring and release processes.
• Versatility across infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimisation, Kubernetes debugging, and troubleshooting code.

• Not an appropriate fit if you prefer a manager to dictate architecture decisions.
• Not an appropriate fit if you dislike SQL or coding.
• Not an appropriate fit if you rely exclusively on live meetings for communication in an async culture.
• Not an appropriate fit if you require external project management support.

Type Script, Node.js, React, Apollo Graph

QL, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Datadog, Sentry.

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Minimum 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental health insurance fully covered in other countries.

Compensation Range: £138K – £224K

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to 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.