Principal Platform Engineer, EU

Base pay range

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

About The Role And How We Work

Hi ? I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering. 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. The rigour, the discipline, the peace and quiet when everything just hums along.

Having herded plenty of snowflake‑servers in the past, I’ve learned there’s a better way. I (and Ashby) place a lot of value on infrastructure‑as‑code. As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure. All our own engineers own their projects end‑to‑end and ship with minimal oversight.

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

Why you should or shouldn’t apply

You Should Apply If

• You never stop. You get weirdly obsessed about a problem that doesn’t yet make sense, turn it every which way in your head until the explanation dawns. . .
• You don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design. . .
• You’re someone who cares about what you do and the team you do it with, and want to work with others who do as well. . .
• You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at - you know how to deal with millions of data points. . .
• You’re a Swiss army knife. You’ll get every hard problem the company faces. . .

Role

• You don’t want to make your own decisions. . . you ship what you want to build and are accountable for it.
• You hate SQL. We have a lot of features built around making the best out of data. . .
• You don’t want to code. Our SREs are some of our best software engineers. . .
• Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is live meetings. We’re a very async culture. . .
• You’ve never delivered a project, on your own, without someone prodding you for updates. . .

Technology Stack

Type
Script (frontend & backend), Node. js, React, Apollo Graph
QL, Postgres, Redis. We use Datadog and Sentry on 100% cloud‑based (AWS) infra. All engineers are on call in a follow‑the‑sun model.

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.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Health insurance coverage – 100% premiums covered in the US, full coverage in other countries.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.