Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ashby builds software that helps talent teams create efficient, delightful, and respectful hiring processes. The Staff Platform Engineer will build and scale secure, reliable infrastructure, improve developer tooling and experience, and own platform projects end-to-end, including cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, deployments, and data architecture.
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
Skills
- Curious and rigorous problem-solving skills
- Experience in building infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby
- Ability to deal with millions of data points
- Experience in 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
- Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis
- Experience with AWS infrastructure
- Ability to work in a remote environment
- Strong written communication skills
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with debugging and optimizing databases
- Experience with security enforcements
- Experience with event-driven architecture and data warehousing
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, 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.
- $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.
- We also meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company.
- You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.
- Your manager will do a 30, 60, and 90-day review to give feedback and calibrate on how we work together.
- You’ll have a peer paired with you to answer questions, pair program, and check in often to see if you need help.
- The rest of the team will run training sessions on our culture, product, engineering process, and technical architecture.
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