At a Glance
- Tasks: Build future-proof infrastructure for Ashby’s hiring platform and optimise dynamic recruiting tools.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, unlimited PTO, and a generous education budget.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of async communication and continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by solving complex challenges in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in infrastructure, coding, and a passion for teamwork required.
The predicted salary is between 138000 - 224000 £ per year.
We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem‑hungry platform engineer who codes to build the future‑proof infrastructure that powers Ashby’s hiring platform.
Responsibilities include:
- Optimizing our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler and creating tools to help developers.
- Creating automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data.
- Helping our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.
- Working with the business and engineering team to define SLOs and implement the corresponding SLIs.
- Ensuring all communication with external services supports retries and circuit‑breakers.
- Implementing the infrastructure to support an event‑driven architecture and data warehouse.
Profile & Fit:
- Persevering solve‑the‑problem mentality: obsessed with finding solutions to unclear challenges.
- High integrity: refuse shortcuts, advocate for future‑user impact and robust solutions.
- Passion for teamwork, deep respect for colleagues, and a desire to elevate those around them.
- Experience building infrastructure at scale, managing millions of data points, and automating provisioning, monitoring and release processes.
- Versatility across infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimisation, Kubernetes debugging, and troubleshooting code.
Not an appropriate fit if you prefer a manager to dictate architecture decisions, dislike SQL or coding, rely exclusively on live meetings for communication in an async culture, or require external project management support.
Technology Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Datadog, Sentry.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Minimum 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Generous equipment, software and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget.
- Health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental health insurance fully covered in other countries.
Compensation Range: £138K – £224K
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.
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