# Staff Platform Engineer, Americas
**Company:** [Ashby](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ashby)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $190K-$275K
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, Apollo Graphql, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, Sentry, SQL
**Posted:** 2025-11-13
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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
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