Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Leader — Scale & Reliability

Ashby, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashby, Inc. is seeking a senior Engineering Leader to own Platform & Infrastructure, reporting directly to the CTO.

You will shape the long-term vision and 6-month roadmap, hire and grow the team, and align Platform & Infrastructure with fast-moving Product Engineering to maintain performance and reliability. You will strengthen monitoring, incident response, and vendor management while building a high-performing leadership layer and collaborating across Engineering, Product, and Support.

Qualifications

• Experience leading in a high-growth company and making tough design decisions under pressure.
• Proven ability to design and execute hiring processes and interview loops.
• Strong collaboration across Product Engineering, Product, Sales, and Support.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a long-term vision and a 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Grow the Platform & Infrastructure team, hire managers, and plan headcount.
• Foster a fast, reliable product-engineering relationship without creating bottlenecks or tech debt.
• Improve monitoring, incident management, and uptime measurement; coordinate with Support during incidents.
• Manage vendor relationships and pricing for hosting and observability infra (AWS, Datadog, etc.).
• Hire and mentor managers; build DevEx if applicable.

Skills

High-growth leadership

Hiring & people management

Cross-functional collaboration

Kubernetes knowledge

Networking & infra concepts

Effective communication

Tools

AWS

Datadog

ClickHouse

Job description

Ashby, Inc. is seeking a senior Engineering Leader to own Platform & Infrastructure, reporting directly to the CTO.

You will shape the long-term vision and 6-month roadmap, hire and grow the team, and align Platform & Infrastructure with fast-moving Product Engineering to maintain performance and reliability. You will strengthen monitoring, incident response, and vendor management while building a high-performing leadership layer and collaborating across Engineering, Product, and Support.