Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem‑hungry platform 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. About the Role Hi, I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering. I’ve spent years leading engineering teams in startups and building infrastructure. Our infrastructure is strong but growing; we’re looking for a platform engineer who can dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities, and own projects end‑to‑end. Responsibilities Optimize our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler and create tools for developers. Create automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data. Help our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while reducing downtime. Work with business and engineering to define SLOs and implement SLI metrics. Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit‑breakers. Implement infrastructure to support an event‑driven architecture and data warehouse. Qualifications Obsessive about problems, dig deep and iterate until solutions emerge. Never take shortcuts and advocate for future users, edge cases, and doomsday scenarios. Care about teamwork, have strong communication skills, and can choose colleagues rigorously. Experienced building infrastructure at a later stage, handling millions of data points, and automating provisioning to monitoring. Versatile across infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and troubleshooting via TypeScript traces. Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis. We use Datadog and Sentry on AWS, follow‑the‑sun on‑call, and emphasize developer tooling. Benefits Competitive salary and equity. 10‑year stock option exercise window. Unlimited PTO. Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave. Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. $100/month education budget. Top‑tier health insurance in the US, and supplemental coverage elsewhere. Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We welcome people from all backgrounds. Compensation Range: $190K – $275K #J-18808-Ljbffr