Staff Platform Engineer - EU

Ashby; Town of Italy (NY); On-site; USD 165,047 - 264,544; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Ashby is seeking a curious and rigorous platform engineer based in New York. The successful candidate will optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler, create tools for security and privacy, and contribute to an event-driven architecture. Strong ownership mentality, problem-solving skills, and experience with SQL and scalable infrastructure are essential. Compensation ranges from €141K to €226K, with benefits including unlimited PTO and top-tier health insurance.

Qualifications

• Obsessive curiosity about problems, willing to dig deep for solutions.
• Strong ownership mentality, comfortable making technical decisions.
• Experience scaling infrastructure and monitoring processes.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create helpful tools.
• Create automated guardrails for data security and privacy.
• Help developers ship features quickly with canary deploys.

Skills

Curiosity about problems

Technical ownership

SQL proficiency

Experience with event-driven architecture

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Postgres

Redis

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.