[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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.


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, 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
  • 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.

Company Overview

  • Ashby develops human resource software to assist companies with hiring and manpower management. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.ashbyhq.com.

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