Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

Hi, I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and CTO. Ashby is growing fast, which means exponential growth across every product metric: jobs, applications, interviews, you name it. We’re not slowing down, and as a result, keeping Ashby performant and reliable is a company priority. We need your leadership to do that now and in the future.

We’ve already assembled a fantastic Platform & Infrastructure team of 11 engineers (all Senior+, >70% Staff), and they’ve done an excellent job handling our growth, but the management and leadership of Platform & Infrastructure have been diffused across our Engineering leaders. As we hit our next level of scale, it’s time for us to hire an Engineering leader responsible for performance and reliability, and for building out the team that ensures those.

The Role

In this role, you will report directly to me, and your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining a long-term vision and 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Growing the Platform & Infrastructure team. You’ll hire ICs, managers, and build out a headcount plan. This will include determining if more specialized roles need to be established (e.g., DB Admin).
• Building and maintaining an excellent relationship with Product Engineering.
• Assessing and improving our monitoring and incident management process.
• Maintaining vendor relationships and negotiating pricing for our critical hosting and observability infrastructure, including AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Braintrust.
• You’ve managed managers.
• If you have experience managing developer experience and developer tools, building out a dedicated team for DevEx.

A big part of our secret sauce is how we run Engineering. We achieve incredible speed and quality by discarding many industry norms and being optimistic about Engineers. You’ll be a key leader in ensuring that continues!

The Qualifications

• You played an important role leading a company through a high-growth period (either as an IC Lead or Engineering Leader).
• You have experience hiring and building hiring processes, and enjoy it!
• You have a track record of excellent collaboration with other departments.
• You are knowledgeable about platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.
• You are a great communicator, particularly in writing.
• You should be comfortable managing a team spanning from the Americas West Coast to Europe.

What We’re Building

As engineers, we are used to tooling that makes us better at what we do. When we started Ashby, we saw the opposite with Talent Acquisition software. Recruiting teams were leveling up how they did their work, but instead of software meeting this new standard, it held them back.

Why You Shouldn’t Apply

• You’ve always been a line manager or never led a department within Engineering.
• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology.
• You went into management because it was the only growth path available.
• You’re happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career.
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast. We do it through minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design, natural collaboration and deliberate communication, and investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.

Interview Process

This is an important role that will lead our Platform & Infrastructure teams now and for the foreseeable future. The interview process reflects that in both challenge and length (5 rounds, ~6.5h):

• Introduction call with me (30m, live)
• A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)
• An interview to explore your past experience as a leader (1h, live)
• Interview with Colin, our Head of EMEA Engineering (45m)
• Final round where you meet various folks on the team and explore leadership and technical topics (3h)

Your first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership. While most of your onboarding will be driven by a 6-month plan you put together (and refine over time), you’ll also ship some product changes, features, and infra changes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.
• Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents.

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.