Staff Platform Engineer, Canada
P2P, Waterloo, NY, United States
Overview
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 build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. Similarly, you’re an engineer who wants to build a “paved road” that excellent engineering teams can safely take to the moon and back.
We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, over 2500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway.
About The Role and How We Work
Hi I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering. Our infrastructure is in a good place for now, but Ashby continues to grow rapidly, putting strain on our existing infrastructure. We’re always looking to give our customers more powerful hiring software, and building new product‑features often requires new pieces of infrastructure.
As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure. All our own engineers own their projects end‑to‑end and ship with minimal oversight. We don’t put roadblocks to ensure security when common sense will do and we don’t build processes like change‑management boards around the lowest common denominator. With great power comes great responsibility: we handle personal and confidential data about some of the biggest decisions we ever make at work. Our small but mighty infrastructure team has set up a secure and simple environment for our growing product team to build in. You will own projects end‑to‑end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience.
Responsibilities
Optimize our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler, and create tools to help developers do so.
Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data.
Help our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.
Work 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.
Qualifications
You never stop. You get weirdly obsessed about a problem that doesn’t yet make sense and turn it every which way until the explanation dawns.
You don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, and the doomsday design.
You’re someone who cares about what you do and the team you do it with, and you want to work with others who do as well.
You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at – you know how to deal with millions of data points, have seen great or not great infrastructure make or break customer experience, and have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process.
You’re a Swiss army knife. You’ll get every hard problem the company faces, from infrastructure updates and security enforcements to database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through TypeScript traces.
Not Ideal Fit
You don’t want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby and expect a lead or manager to make the final call.
You hate SQL.
You don’t want to code.
Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is live meetings. Ashby is a very async culture and written communication is how changes get made.
You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates. Ashby has no project or delivery managers; you must manage your own work.
Technology Stack
TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis. We use Datadog and Sentry on 100% cloud‑based (AWS) infra. All engineers are on call in a follow‑the‑sun model, and everyone contributes to developer tooling.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget, with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
Top‑tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered (or supplemental coverage in 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.
Compensation Range: CA$173K - CA$326K
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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. Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. Similarly, you’re an engineer who wants to build a “paved road” that excellent engineering teams can safely take to the moon and back.
We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, over 2500 customers, very low churn, and many years of runway.
About The Role and How We Work
Hi I’m Colin, Head of EMEA Engineering. Our infrastructure is in a good place for now, but Ashby continues to grow rapidly, putting strain on our existing infrastructure. We’re always looking to give our customers more powerful hiring software, and building new product‑features often requires new pieces of infrastructure.
As a Platform Engineer at Ashby, you’ll dive into scaling problems, add new capabilities to our platform, and think about how our entire team interacts with infrastructure. All our own engineers own their projects end‑to‑end and ship with minimal oversight. We don’t put roadblocks to ensure security when common sense will do and we don’t build processes like change‑management boards around the lowest common denominator. With great power comes great responsibility: we handle personal and confidential data about some of the biggest decisions we ever make at work. Our small but mighty infrastructure team has set up a secure and simple environment for our growing product team to build in. You will own projects end‑to‑end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience.
Responsibilities
Optimize our homegrown ultra‑dynamic recruiting DSL‑to‑SQL compiler, and create tools to help developers do so.
Create automated guardrails for the security and privacy of our customer data.
Help our developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags, while keeping complexity manageable and reducing downtime.
Work 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.
Qualifications
You never stop. You get weirdly obsessed about a problem that doesn’t yet make sense and turn it every which way until the explanation dawns.
You don’t take shortcuts. You’re speaking up for the future user, the edge case, and the doomsday design.
You’re someone who cares about what you do and the team you do it with, and you want to work with others who do as well.
You’ve built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at – you know how to deal with millions of data points, have seen great or not great infrastructure make or break customer experience, and have automated everything from provisioning to monitoring and release process.
You’re a Swiss army knife. You’ll get every hard problem the company faces, from infrastructure updates and security enforcements to database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, and digging through TypeScript traces.
Not Ideal Fit
You don’t want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby and expect a lead or manager to make the final call.
You hate SQL.
You don’t want to code.
Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is live meetings. Ashby is a very async culture and written communication is how changes get made.
You’ve never delivered a project on your own without someone prodding you for updates. Ashby has no project or delivery managers; you must manage your own work.
Technology Stack
TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis. We use Datadog and Sentry on 100% cloud‑based (AWS) infra. All engineers are on call in a follow‑the‑sun model, and everyone contributes to developer tooling.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget, with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
Top‑tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered (or supplemental coverage in 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.
Compensation Range: CA$173K - CA$326K
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