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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.We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.We’ve listed this role twice: as a Platform Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer – our team does both, and we are open to candidates who lean towards one or the other.About the role and how we workHi 👋 I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering.As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll get to dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure.For instance, you could work on:Optimize our homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler, and create tools to help developers do soCreate automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer dataHelp our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtimeWork with the business and the engineering team to define SLOs and implement the corresponding SLIs.Ensure all communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.Implement the infrastructure to support an event-driven architecture and data warehouse.We’re looking for someone who can build systems that an engineer would like to work with: mature and boring but open-minded and approachable.Why you should or shouldn’t applyYou should apply if:You never stop. You get weirdly obsessed about a problem that doesn’t yet make sense...You don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design.You’re someone who cares about what you do and the team you do it with...You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at...You’re a Swiss army knife (all nationalities welcome ;) ).You should not apply if:You don’t want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby...You hate SQL.You don’t want to code.Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is live meetings.You’ve never delivered a project, on your own, without someone prodding you for updates.Technology StackI’m sharing our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it: TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis.We use Datadog and Sentry on 100% cloud-based (AWS) infra.Engineering CultureOur engineering culture is motivated by Abhik and Benji’s (our co-founders) belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!). We do it through:Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and designNatural collaboration and deliberate communicationInvesting in tools and abstractions that give us leveragePutting effort into building a diverse teamInterview ProcessOur interview process is three rounds:Introduction call with Hiring Manager (15 to 30m, live)A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)Three non-coding interviews that focus on technical design, debugging incidents, and infrastructure (3h 15m, live can be split across multiple days)Depending on our leadership team’s bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter.Your First Three Months at AshbyAt Ashby, your dev environment is set up with a single script, you push your first product change on day one, and you spend the rest of your time shipping product changes...BenefitsCompetitive salary and equity.10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.Unlimited PTO, and we will encourage you to take it.A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.