Staff Platform Engineer - UK
Core
Build a future-proof, secure, and scalable platform infrastructure to support Ashby's rapid growth and seamless user experience for talent teams.
Role type
Staff Platform Engineer
Builds
Core platform infrastructure, security guardrails, deployment pipelines, and data warehouse support for Ashby's hiring software.
Domain
SaaS / Talent Acquisition / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
System design, risk evaluation, debugging complex issues, SLO/SLI definition, event-driven architecture, DSL-to-SQL compilation, security & privacy implementation, canary deployments, circuit-breaker patterns.
Preferred skills
Experience scaling infrastructure, code-as-infrastructure philosophy, building developer tools.
Technologies
SQL, event-driven architecture, data warehouse, monitoring tools, deployment pipelines.
Responsibilities
Optimize the homegrown recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler; Create automated guardrails for customer data security and privacy; Implement canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags; Define and implement SLOs and SLIs; Ensure external service communication supports retries and circuit-breakers; Build infrastructure for event-driven architecture and data warehouse.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact