[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer, Americas
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ashby is a company focused on creating efficient and respectful hiring processes through their software. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their infrastructure, tackle scaling challenges, and contribute to building a future-proof platform that supports rapid growth and a seamless user experience.
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
Skills
- Curious, rigorous, problem-hungry platform engineer who codes
- Experience building infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby
- Ability to deal with millions of data points
- Experience automating everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process
- Comfortable evaluating risk
- Experience with SQL
- Ability to code and review code changes
- Experience delivering projects independently
- Strong written communication skills
- Experience with TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis
- Experience with AWS infrastructure
- Experience with Datadog and Sentry
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Typescript debugging
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.
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