Principal Site Reliability & Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Ashby as a Site Reliability Engineer and contribute to building a robust and scalable platform for a rapidly growing company. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and security of our software, working on projects ranging from optimizing our compiler to implementing an event-driven architecture. This position requires a deep understanding of infrastructure, a passion for problem-solving, and a collaborative spirit. You will own projects end-to-end, making critical decisions and building solutions that impact the developer and user experience. We offer a unique opportunity to work with a talented team in a supportive and collaborative environment, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation. We value a culture of ownership, autonomy, and asynchronous communication.

Requirements

• 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
• You don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design. You know product engineers want to build it with you, and see them as allies, where you give them the power and knowledge to access greater things
• 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’ll be on interview panels choosing your next colleagues, and you’ll take that seriously. You only want to work with people who make you better, and want to make you better
• You’ve 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’re a Swiss army knife (all nationalities welcome ;) ). You’ll be the third SRE, so you’ll get every hard problem the company faces. You’ll get to do infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through Typescript traces figuring out what doesn’t work. You probably don’t feel like an expert at at least some of that... and that appeals to you

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
• Reviewing code and submitting code changes

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience in TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis

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
• Top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us (US employees)