Staff Platform Engineer - UK

About the Position

Staff Platform Engineer - UK

United Kingdom

We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem-hungry platform software 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.

We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, over 2500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet, but you now probably have a good idea as to why we're hiring for this role 😅.

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.

Requirements

• Infrastructure: Experience in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure.
• Security: Strong understanding of security best practices and data privacy.
• Kubernetes: Proficiency in Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• SQL: Experience with SQL for data management and querying.
• Code: Ability to write clean, maintainable code.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI-powered tooling for automation and code reviews.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Remote work options
• Professional development budget

About the Company

At Ashby, we believe that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!). We achieve this through:

• Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership: Engineers take on the rest: they research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end.
• Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate: Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind.
• Increase Leverage, not Team Size: We’ve done this through investment in great developer tooling, building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast, and AI-powered tooling.
• Put Effort into Diversity: Diverse teams drive innovation and better outcomes. Today, 25% of engineers and 50% of our engineering leaders at Ashby are from underrepresented groups.
• Work-Life Balance: The intensity of work at Ashby should feel like a marathon, not a sprint. We offer unlimited PTO, and you actually get to use it.

Join us in building a future-proof platform that can withstand the scale and deliver a seamless experience to our growing customer base.