Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

We're looking for a curious, rigorous, problem-hungry platform engineer who codes to help Ashby scale its product and infrastructure.Our customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. We grow >100% year over year with over 2,500 customers and low churn.ResponsibilitiesOptimize our homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tooling for developers.Create automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data.Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.Work with business and engineering to define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs.Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.Implement infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse.You Should Apply IfYou obsess over solving hard problems and do "deep dives" until you understand them.You do not take shortcuts; you advocate for future users, edge cases, and doomsday design.You care about your team and want to work with people who make you better.You have built infrastructure at a later stage than Ashby (millions of data points, automated provisioning, monitoring, release).You are a Swiss-army-knife; you can tackle infrastructure updates, security, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, etc.Desired QualificationsExperience with large-scale infrastructure, at least in the millions-data-point range.Strong programming skills in at least one of TypeScript, Go, Python, or similar.Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.Knowledge of database engines (Postgres, Redis) and event-driven architectures.Comfortable writing and reviewing code; ownership of end-to-end projects.Excellent communication skills in an async culture; ability to share best practices via code and documentation.Technology StackTypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Datadog, Sentry.BenefitsCompetitive salary and equity with a 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 coverage (US: 100% premiums).Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.J-18808-Ljbffr