Requirements

• Curious, rigorous, and problem-hungry platform software engineer who enjoys coding
• Experience building infrastructure at a stage similar or later than Ashby's current size
• Comfortable dealing with millions of data points and automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes
• Ability to build mature, reliable, yet flexible systems that are approachable for other engineers
• Strong skills in SQL since the role involves building features around data usage and advising on data models
• Must code regularly, review code, and contribute code changes as a software engineer
• Excellent written communication skills for sharing tooling and best practices in an async culture
• Strong self-driven project management skills to deliver projects independently without heavy oversight

Nice to Haves

• Experience optimizing compilers or domain-specific languages (e.g., a recruiting DSL to SQL compiler)
• Experience implementing automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and data warehouse infrastructure
• Experience with gradual rollouts, canary deploys, and feature flags to ship features quickly
• Familiarity with defining and implementing SLOs and SLIs
• Comfortable evaluating risks associated with mission-critical software availability
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes debugging, database optimization, and complex debugging

What You'll Be Doing

• Dive into scaling problems and build new capabilities for Ashby’s platform infrastructure
• Own projects end-to-end with minimal oversight impacting core parts of developer and user experience
• Optimize Ashby’s homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and build developer tools
• Create automated security and privacy guardrails to protect customer data
• Help developers ship features faster using canary deploys, feature flags, and gradual rollouts
• Collaborate with business and engineering teams to define SLOs and implement appropriate SLIs
• Ensure external service communications support retries and circuit breakers for reliability
• Develop infrastructure for event-driven architectures and data warehousing
• Operate in a culture of minimal process, high ownership, and deliberate communication
• Contribute to developer tooling, monitoring, CI/CD, and overall developer experience

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO with encouragement to take it and flexible remote work hours
• At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with longer in some regions
• Generous budgets for equipment, software, office furniture, education, and developer tools
• $100/month education budget plus coverage for conferences with manager approval
• $250/month tool budget including access to AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Codex
• Top-tier health insurance fully covered for employees and dependents in the US; supplemental coverage elsewhere
• Strong focus on work-life balance with respect for focus time and low meeting culture
• Inclusive environment with emphasis on diversity and equal opportunity