Staff Platform Engineer - UK

About the Role

We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem-hungry platform software engineer (who codes!) to carry the ball as we bring Ashby to the big leagues. Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll get to dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure. All our own engineers own their projects end-to-end and ship with minimal oversight.

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.
• Review code and submit code changes as part of your day-to-day work.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast. We do it through: * Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design. * Natural collaboration and deliberate communication. * Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage. * Putting effort into building a diverse team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
• $250/month tool budget plus access to Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
• High-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, fully covered by us.
• In-person meetups at least twice a year, plus a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.

Requirements

• You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at - you know how to deal with millions of data points, have seen great (or not great) infrastructure make or break customer experience, and have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process.
• You are a Swiss army knife: you are comfortable with infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Typescript traces.
• You are comfortable evaluating risk.
• You are comfortable with async culture and written communication.
• You are capable of delivering projects on your own without constant prodding.
• While we don’t require previous experience in our specific stack, we use: TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, and AWS.