Requirements

• Passion for solving complex platform engineering problems with code.
• Experience building infrastructure that supports scaling and reliability.
• Ability to build secure, mature, and approachable systems balancing reliability and flexibility.
• Comfortable with SQL for complex data queries and optimization.
• Strong ownership mentality — able to make technical decisions independently and deliver projects end-to-end without heavy oversight.
• Willingness to engage in code review and submit code changes regularly.
• Excellent written communication skills to share tooling and best practices asynchronously.
• Experience with infrastructure topics such as security enforcement, provisioning automation, Kubernetes debugging, database optimization.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working at a high-growth startup or late-stage startup environment.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and data warehouses.
• Background in building developer tooling or internal platform services.
• Comfort tackling diverse engineering problems across different domains.
• Automated provisioning, monitoring, and release processes experience.
• Experience defining and implementing service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs).
• Experience with tools like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Datadog, or Sentry.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and scaling Ashby’s platform and infrastructure to support rapid growth and tens of millions in ARR.
• Improving developer experience by optimizing internal tools like a DSL-to-SQL compiler and CI/CD pipelines.
• Creating automated security and privacy guardrails around customer data.
• Enabling fast feature shipping using canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while controlling complexity and downtime.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, and business teams to define SLOs and implement SLIs.
• Ensuring robust communication with external services including retries and circuit breakers.
• Contributing to infrastructure for event-driven architectures and data warehouses.
• Owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight, including research, design, and implementation.
• Participating in asynchronous communication and documentation to share best practices and tooling.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window on stock options.
• Unlimited paid time off encouraged and supported.
• A minimum of 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (varies by region).
• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture to ensure productivity and happiness.
• $100/month education budget plus coverage for conferences with manager approval.
• $250/month tool budget plus access to AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Codex with generous token budgets.
• Comprehensive health insurance fully covered by Ashby for employees and dependents (top-tier in the US and high-quality supplemental plans elsewhere).
• Supportive, low-meeting, and high-ownership remote culture with flexibility in work hours.
• Biannual in-person meetups and budgets to support local team gatherings.
• A diverse and inclusive culture actively supporting underrepresented groups in engineering.
• Strong focus on work-life balance promoting sustainable long-term productivity.