Principal Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Ashby as a Platform Engineer and help build a reliable and scalable platform for a rapidly growing company. You will be responsible for optimizing existing systems, creating automated security guardrails, and improving the developer experience. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, experience with infrastructure at scale, and a passion for building robust and maintainable systems. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a collaborative environment and is comfortable making independent decisions. Ashby offers a competitive salary and equity, unlimited PTO, generous family leave, and a strong focus on employee well-being.

Requirements

• You have built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at - you know how to deal with millions of data points, have seen great (or not great) infrastructure make or break customer experience, and have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process
• You are comfortable evaluating risk, those you take and those others take
• You do not take shortcuts
• You care about what you do and the team you do it with, and want to work with others who do as well
• You are a Swiss army knife (all nationalities welcome ;) )
• You want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby
• You do not hate SQL
• You want to code
• Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is not live meetings
• You have delivered a project, on your own, without someone prodding you for updates

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
• Review code and submit code changes

Preferred Qualifications

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’ll search every rock, inventory every clue, hunt every mismatch

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us