Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Leader

Ashby, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashby, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Leader to own Platform & Infrastructure, shaping its long-term vision and 6-month roadmap.

You will build and scale the team, hire managers, and partner across Product Engineering to keep systems fast and reliable as Ashby grows. You will drive monitoring, incident response, and vendor relationships (AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, Braintrust), while aligning with business goals and engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading high-growth engineering teams.
• Experience hiring and building hiring processes, and leading interview strategy.
• Strong collaboration with Product Engineering, Product, Sales, or Support.
• Knowledge of platform and infrastructure tech, networking, and hardware.
• Excellent written communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a long-term vision and a 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Grow the Platform & Infrastructure team: hire ICs, managers, and plan headcount.
• Foster fast, reliable collaboration with Product Engineering without compromising performance.
• Assess and improve monitoring and incident management processes and uptime coordination with Support.
• Maintain vendor relationships and manage hosting and observability costs (AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, Braintrust).
• Manage other leaders; likely hire a manager within 6 months; consider DevEx alignment if needed.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Hiring processes

Cross-functional collaboration

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

ClickHouse

Datadog

Braintrust

Job description

Ashby, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Leader to own Platform & Infrastructure, shaping its long-term vision and 6-month roadmap.

You will build and scale the team, hire managers, and partner across Product Engineering to keep systems fast and reliable as Ashby grows. You will drive monitoring, incident response, and vendor relationships (AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, Braintrust), while aligning with business goals and engineering culture.