Staff Platform Engineer - Americas

Job Overview

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.

Similarly, you’re an engineer who wants to build a “paved road” that excellent engineering teams can safely take to the moon and back. We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

Job Description

Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, over 2500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway.

We’ll share more details once we meet, but you now probably have a good idea as to why we're hiring for this role . About the role and how we work Hi I’m Colin , Head of EMEA Engineering.

I’ve got my hands dirty building the initial infrastructure for startups and know the value a talented infrastructure engineer brings. The rigour, the discipline, the peace and quiet when everything just hums along .

Our infrastructure is in a good place for now . Nothing is static. Ashby continues to grow rapidly, putting strain on our existing infrastructure.

We’re always looking to give our customers more powerful hiring software, and building new product features often requires new pieces of infrastructure. Having herded plenty of snowflakeservers in the past, I’ve learned there’s a better way.

I (and Ashby) place a lot of value on code-as-infrastructure. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process.
• Similarly, you’re an engineer who wants to build a “paved road” that excellent engineering teams can safely take to the moon and back.
• I’ve spent a number of years leading engineering teams in startups, and that has always included being close to infrastructure teams - no matter what name they’ve worn (SRE, infrastructure, platform, etc).
• I’ve got my hands dirty building the initial infrastructure for startups and know the value a talented infrastructure engineer brings.
• We’re always looking to give our customers more powerful hiring software, and building new product features often requires new pieces of infrastructure.
• We don’t put roadblocks to ensure security when common sense will do and we don’t build processes like change management boards around the lowest common denominator.
• But with great power comes great responsibility: we handle personal and confidential data about some of the biggest decisions we ever make at work.
• We’re at an inflection point where our ability to scale and deliver a seamless experience has a make-or-break impact – we have some of the fastest growing companies using our platform every day to hire hundreds of people per month.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• We’re at an inflection point where our ability to scale and deliver a seamless experience has a make-or-break impact – we have some of the fastest growing companies using our platform every day to hire hundreds of people per month.
• That’s where you come in: you, too, will own projects end-to-end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience.
• They must do this while considering the interview load on each individual and whether interviewers need to be trained and shadowing others.
• You know product engineers want to build it with you, and see them as allies, where you give them the power and knowledge to access greater things.
• 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.
• Their purpose is to create consistent outcomes regardless of the engineer’s skill.
• It’s a new level of ownership for many engineers, but we’d rather an engineer fail a bit and coach up their skills than use process as a crutch.
• Everyone on the team has contributed to our developer experience .

Benefits and Perks

• We offer unlimited PTO, and you actually get to use it.
• Some of our most exceptional engineers take almost 30 days of vacation per year.
• Benefits Competitive salary and equity.
• Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
• 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.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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