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Staff Platform Engineer - EU
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer role at Ashby, owning infrastructure projects end-to-end and building a paved road for the engineering team. The team does both platform and SRE work and is open to candidates leaning toward either.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Optimize the 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 customer data
- Help 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
- Own projects end-to-end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience
- Review code and submit code changes as part of day-to-day work
- Share new tooling and best practices with engineers through written communication
- Do your own project management, seek help to get unstuck and cut scope when worthwhile
- Participate in interview panels choosing new colleagues
- Be on call in a follow-the-sun model and contribute to developer tooling
What we're looking for
- Curious, rigorous, problem-hungry engineer who codes
- Never stops investigating problems until the explanation dawns
- Doesn't take shortcuts; speaks up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design
- Cares about the work and the team, and wants to work with others who do as well
- Has built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at; knows how to deal with millions of data points
- Has seen great (or not great) infrastructure make or break customer experience
- Has automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process
- Comfortable being a Swiss army knife across infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through TypeScript traces
- Willing to make own decisions on the best paved road to build and be accountable for them
- Comfortable with SQL
- Wants to code; reviewing and submitting code changes is part of the day to day
- Comfortable with async culture and written communication as the primary mode of sharing best practices
- Has delivered a project on their own without someone prodding them for updates
- Comfortable evaluating risk
Your team
Infrastructure team
Small but mighty infrastructure team that has set up a secure and simple environment for the growing product team to build in.
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About Ashby
Software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process
Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process.
Key facts
- Notable customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake
- Tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year
- Over 2500 customers
- Very low churn
- Many years of runway
- All engineers are on call in a follow-the-sun model
- 100% cloud-based (AWS) infrastructure
Partners & customers
NotionLinearShopifySnowflake
What they value
- 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