Staff Platform Engineer - UK

Ashby · Birmingham, Bristol +2

Ashby makes recruiting software for more than 2,500 customers, including Notion, Linear and Shopify, and is growing fast. This Staff Platform Engineer helps its small infrastructure team build a reliable, secure platform that product engineers can ship on quickly as the load grows.

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Company: Ashby
Where: Birmingham, Bristol +2
Function: Engineering
Posted: 51 weeks ago
Team: Engineering
Seniority: Mid senior
Work mode: On-site
Categories: SaaS

The role

What you’ll do

Own platform projects end to end, from deciding what to build to shipping it
Add guardrails for customer data security, plus safer releases through canaries and feature flags
Define SLOs with the business and build the measurements behind them
Debug across Kubernetes, databases and TypeScript traces, and write application code too

What you’ll need

Infrastructure experience at a company somewhat larger than Ashby, handling millions of data points
A track record of automating provisioning, monitoring and releases
Comfort with SQL and helping engineers design faster data models
Strong written communication for an async team with no project managers

Good to know: Remote in the UK. Pay ranges from £151K to £246K, plus equity. Unlimited holiday and in-person meet-ups at least twice a year. Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis on AWS.