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Ashby · 2 weeks ago

Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$190K/yr - $275K/yr

Ashby is a company focused on creating efficient and respectful hiring processes through their software. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their infrastructure, tackle scaling challenges, and contribute to building a future-proof platform that supports rapid growth and a seamless user experience.

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 managementSQLTypeScriptAWSKubernetesPostgresNode.jsReactSoft skillsProblem-solvingCollaborationCommunication

Required

Curious, rigorous, problem-hungry platform engineer who codes

Experience building infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby

Ability to deal with millions of data points

Experience automating everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process

Comfortable evaluating risk

Experience with SQL

Ability to code and review code changes

Experience delivering projects independently

Strong written communication skills

Preferred

Experience with TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis

Experience with AWS infrastructure

Experience with Datadog and Sentry

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with Typescript debugging

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.