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Ashby · 2 weeks ago

Staff Platform Engineer, EU

Ashby is a rapidly growing company that builds software to enhance the hiring process for talent teams. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to help scale their infrastructure and improve their platform's capabilities, ensuring reliability and security as they grow.

Human ResourcesManagement Information SystemsRecruitingSoftware

Responsibilities

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 the 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

Qualification

Infrastructure as CodeSQLEvent-driven architectureAWSTypeScriptNode.jsPostgresKubernetesSoft skillsProblem-solvingCollaboration

Required

Curious and rigorous problem-solving skills
Experience in building infrastructure at a later stage than Ashby
Ability to deal with millions of data points
Experience in automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes
Comfortable evaluating risk
Strong coding skills
Experience with SQL
Ability to communicate best practices through written communication
Experience delivering projects independently
Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis
Experience with AWS infrastructure
Ability to work in a fast-paced, asynchronous environment
Experience with infrastructure-as-code
Ability to own projects end-to-end

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity.
10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.

Company

Ashby

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Ashby develops human resource software to assist companies with hiring and manpower management.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$120.01M
Key Investors
Lachy GroomF-PrimeElad Gil
2025-07-22Series D· $50M
2024-06-03Series C· $30M
2022-03-03Series B· $26.51M
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