Staff Platform Engineer

Job Overview

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.

Our notable customers include Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. We have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, over 2500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway.

Key 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

About Ashby

Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers.

Why You Should Apply

You should apply if you never stop, get obsessed about problems, and don’t take shortcuts. 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.