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AshbyAshbySan Francisco, CA

Staff Platform Engineer, Americas

Staff Platform Engineer builds and scales infrastructure, optimizes compilers and databases, implements deployment tools like canary deploys and feature flags, and ensures reliability with SLOs/SLIs on AWS/Kubernetes. Requires strong coding skills in TypeScript/Node.js and handling diverse infra challenges end-to-end.

190k – 275k/yr
RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Optimize homegrown ultra-dynamic recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and create tools to help developers.
  • Create automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data.
  • Help developers ship features fast through canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while managing complexity and reducing downtime.
  • Work with business and engineering to define SLOs and implement SLIs.
  • Ensure communication with external services supports retries and circuit-breakers.
  • Implement infrastructure for event-driven architecture and data warehouse.

Requirements

  • Build systems that are mature, reliable, flexible, and approachable.
  • Comfortable evaluating risk and comfortable coding (reviewing and submitting code changes).
  • Experience building infrastructure at scale with millions of data points, automating provisioning, monitoring, and release processes.
  • Handle diverse problems: infrastructure updates, security, database optimization, Kubernetes debugging, Typescript traces.
  • Strong in SQL; dive into reports and advise on performant data models.
  • Async written communication for sharing tooling and best practices.
  • Own projects end-to-end with accountability.

Technology Stack

  • TypeScript (frontend & backend)
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Apollo GraphQL
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Datadog
  • Sentry
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes

Compensation

$190,000 - $275,000 USD

Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsReactApollo GraphqlPostgresRedisKubernetesAWSDatadogSentrySQL

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