Staff Platform Engineer - Americas

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.

About the Role

As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll get to dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure. All our own engineers own their projects end-to-end and ship with minimal oversight. We don’t put roadblocks to ensure security when common sense will do.

What You Might Work On

• 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

What We're Looking For

You should apply if:

• 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 don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design.
• You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at — you know how to deal with millions of data points and have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release processes.
• You’re a Swiss army knife. You’ll tackle infrastructure updates, security enforcements, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and TypeScript traces.

You should NOT apply if:

• You expect a lead or manager to make the final call on what paved road to build rather than making your own decisions.
• You hate SQL or do not want to code.
• Your primary mode of communicating best practices is live meetings (we are a very async, written-first culture).
• You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates.

Engineering Culture

• Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership: Product Managers build strategy and hand off problem briefs to engineers who write specs, wireframes, and implement solutions end-to-end.
• Collaboration & Deliberate Communication: Focus time is held sacred, and engineers spend fewer than 2 hours per week in meetings, relying on written proposals and async communication.