# Staff Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Ashby](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ashby)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** £151k – £246k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo Graphql, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, SQL, Infrastructure As Code, Canary Deployments, Feature Flags, Circuit Breakers
**Posted:** 2025-11-14

> Build and operate a scalable, secure platform supporting Ashby’s growing product and engineering organization. The role combines infrastructure engineering, reliability, developer tooling, security, database optimization, and hands-on software development with substantial end-to-end ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and scale platform infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code capabilities.
- Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create developer optimization tools.
- Create automated security and privacy guardrails for customer data.
- Enable canary deployments, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while reducing downtime.
- Define SLOs with business and engineering stakeholders and implement corresponding SLIs.
- Ensure external-service communication supports retries and circuit breakers.
- Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture and a data warehouse.
- Own projects end-to-end, including infrastructure updates, security enforcement, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, monitoring, and release automation.
- Review and submit code changes, contribute to developer tooling, and participate in on-call rotations.
- Communicate best practices through async written communication and code.

## Requirements
- Professional experience building infrastructure at a later-stage, high-scale company.
- Experience handling millions of data points and understanding how infrastructure affects customer experience.
- Experience automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
- Strong software engineering and coding ability.
- Ability to debug Kubernetes systems and TypeScript traces.
- Ability to work with SQL and advise on performant data models.
- Ability to independently deliver projects, manage scope, and make sound technical decisions.
- Willingness to evaluate operational risk and balance reliability with flexibility.
- Willingness to participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.

## Technology Stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Apollo GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Kubernetes

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range: $151,000–$246,000.
- 100% cloud-based infrastructure.
- Follow-the-sun on-call model.
- Async-oriented work culture.
- Opportunities to contribute to developer tooling and core platform capabilities.

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