Staff Platform Engineer - EU

Ashby; Portugal; Remote; EUR 141,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

10-year exercise window for stock options

Unlimited PTO

12 weeks fully paid parental leave

Generous equipment and education budget

Top-tier health insurance

Job summary

Ashby is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance our software for more efficient hiring processes. As a key player, you'll optimize our recruiting compiler and create tools for our developers while ensuring the security of customer data. The ideal candidate is curious, self-driven, and comfortable making technical decisions. The role offers competitive salary plus benefits like unlimited PTO and generous parental leave. Join us in building a delightful and respectful hiring process.

Qualifications

• Curious about problems, willing to dig deep for solutions.
• Comfortable making technical decisions and delivering end-to-end projects.
• Experience with scaling infrastructure and automated processes.
• Able to conduct code reviews and write maintainable code.
• Independent work style preferred.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and create tools for our recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler.
• Establish automated security and privacy guardrails.
• Facilitate quick feature shipping for developers.
• Collaborate with teams to define and implement SLOs.
• Support communication with external services using retries.
• Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture.

Skills

Problem-solving

Curiosity

End-to-end project delivery

SQL

Technical decision making

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Apollo GraphQL

Postgres

Redis

Datadog

Sentry

AWS

Job description

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.