Staff Platform Engineer, EU

About the Role

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 create an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. As an engineer, you will build a “paved road” that excellent engineering teams can safely use.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools to help developers use it.
• Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of customer data.
• Help our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while keeping complexity manageable.
• Work with the business and engineering team to define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs.
• Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.
• Implement the infrastructure to support an event‑driven architecture and a data warehouse.

Qualifications

• Obsessive curiosity about problems, willing to dig deep for solutions.
• Strong ownership mentality, comfortable making technical decisions and delivering end‑to‑end projects.
• Experience scaling infrastructure, automated provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
• Comfortable with SQL, code reviews, and writing maintainable code.
• Preferably can work independently, as we have no project managers to drive you.

Technology Stack

TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis; Datadog, Sentry, AWS.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
• Generous equipment and education budget
• Top‑tier health insurance (US) or supplemental health insurance (other countries)

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 are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Compensation Range: €141K - €226K.