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Ashby

Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

Ashby, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Staff Platform Engineer, Americas 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.

Base pay range $190,000.00/yr – $275,000.00/yr

About the role We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. We’re a high‑growth, low churn company employing 2,500 customers. You’ll own projects end‑to‑end, ship with minimal oversight, and build a future‑proof platform to support scale.

Responsibilities

Optimize our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler and create tools to help developers

Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data

Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime

Work with the business and 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

Qualifications

Obsess over problems and iterate until solutions dawn

Speak up for future users, edge cases, and doomsday design

Care about team dynamics and want to work with better teammates

Have built infrastructure that handles millions of data points and automated provisioning, monitoring, releases

Be a Swiss army knife in infrastructure, security, database optimisation, Kubernetes debugging, TypeScript traces, and more

Reluctant? “You Should Not Apply If”

You don’t want to make your own decisions and expect a manager to decide

You hate SQL

You don’t want to code; reviewing and submitting code changes is part of the day

Your primary mode is live meetings; we’re async and written communication wins

You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates

Technology Stack TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, AWS.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited PTO

Minimum of 12 weeks paid parental leave

Generous equipment, software, office furniture budget

$100/month education budget

Top‑tier health insurance fully covered in the US; high‑quality supplemental insurance elsewhere

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

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