Staff Platform Engineer, EU

Staff Platform Engineer, EU @ Ashby

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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, more than 2, 500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway.

Base Pay Range

We’ll share more details after we meet, but you now probably have a good idea as to why we’re hiring for this role. This role is listed twice: as a Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer – our team does both, and we are open to candidates who lean toward one or the other.

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.

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 snowflake servers in the past, I’ve learned there’s a better way. 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.

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.

Our small but mighty infrastructure team has set up a secure and simple environment (we don’t believe in spinning up a new service unless necessary!) for our growing product team to build in.

Responsibilities

For instance, you could work on:

• Optimize our home‑grown 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.

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 speak 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 (all nationalities welcome). You’ll get every hard problem the company faces: infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Type
  Script traces.

You Shouldn’t Apply If

• You don’t want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby, and expect a lead or manager to make the final call on that.
• You hate SQL. We have many features built around making the best out of data, and we often dive into reports or advise engineers on a more performant data model.
• You don’t want to code. Our SREs are software engineers and they review code and submit changes daily.
• Your primary mode of communicating best practices is live meetings. We’re a very async culture and written communication is how changes get made.
• You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates. We have no project or delivery managers; you’ll do your own project management.

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, and everyone contributes to developer tooling.

What We’re Building

We built and continue to build Ashby to give TA teams the highest standard of tooling. We design software that’s intelligent and powerful, providing insights into where teams are failing and automating many tasks. Our goal is to make hiring faster, more accurate, and more efficient.

Scheduling a final round is an excellent example: recruiters need to find availability, match interviewers, and coordinate last‑minute changes. Our platform turns this manual process into a single integrated workflow.

Engineering Culture

Our culture is motivated by the belief that a small talented team can build high‑quality software fast. We put minimal process around ownership of decisions normally made by product and design.

We 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.
• Building a diverse team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Minimum of 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (additional outside the US).
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget (viewed conferences covered with manager approval).
• Top‑tier health insurance (US) or high‑quality supplemental insurance (other countries), fully covered.

Senior‑ity & Employment

Mid‑Senior level; Full‑time. Engineering and Information Technology, Software Development. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Ashby by 2x.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.