Platform Engineer, Americas

Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

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.

$/yr – $/yr

We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. We’re a high‑growth, low churn company employing 2,500 customers. You’ll own projects end‑to‑end, ship with minimal oversight, and build a future‑proof platform to support scale.

• Optimize our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler and create tools to help developers
• Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data
• Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime
• Work with the business and 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

• Obsess over problems and iterate until solutions dawn
• Speak up for future users, edge cases, and doomsday design
• Care about team dynamics and want to work with better teammates
• Have built infrastructure that handles millions of data points and automated provisioning, monitoring, releases
• Be a Swiss army knife in infrastructure, security, database optimisation, Kubernetes debugging, Type Script traces, and more

• You don’t want to make your own decisions and expect a manager to decide
• You hate SQL
• You don’t want to code; reviewing and submitting code changes is part of the day
• Your primary mode is live meetings; we’re async and written communication wins
• You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates

Type Script (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo Graph

QL, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, AWS.

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Minimum of 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous equipment, software, office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget
• Top‑tier health insurance fully covered in the US; high‑quality supplemental insurance elsewhere

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 welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.