Staff Platform Engineer - Americas
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COMPENSATION
$250k – $295k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote (Americas)
- TypeScript + Node.js
- AWS + Kubernetes
- Async-first culture
Join Ashby as a Staff Platform Engineer to create a reliable, secure foundation for their talent acquisition software. You will design paved roads for engineering teams, optimizing deployment processes, security guardrails, and data infrastructure. This position requires strong coding skills and a focus on building mature, boring systems that enable fast feature delivery.
What you'll do
- Optimize the recruiting DSL-to-SQL compiler and build developer tools
- Create automated security and privacy guardrails for customer data
- Implement canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags
- Define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs with business teams
- Ensure external service communication supports retries and circuit-breakers
- Build infrastructure for event-driven architecture and data warehousing
What you'll need
- Experience building infrastructure at scale with millions of data points
- Strong coding skills in TypeScript or similar languages
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling
- Ability to debug complex issues across infrastructure and application layers
- Comfortable making independent technical decisions without heavy oversight
- Strong written communication skills for an async work environment
- Proven track record of delivering projects autonomously
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes debugging and management
- Familiarity with Datadog and Sentry for monitoring
- Background in security enforcement and database optimization
- Interest in AI-powered tooling for development workflows
Stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Apollo GraphQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- AWS
- Datadog
- Sentry
How you'll work
- Fully remote position for candidates in the Americas
- Async-first culture with less than 2 hours of meetings per week
- Follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared by all engineers
- In-person meetups twice a year for team and company bonding
- Flexible hours with focus on output rather than strict schedules
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity with 10-year exercise window
- Unlimited PTO with encouragement to take time off
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture
- $100 monthly education budget and $250 monthly tool budget
- Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents
- Access to AI tools like Claude and Cursor with generous token limits
Hiring process
- Recruiter screen (30 minutes)
- Introduction call with Head of Engineering (30 minutes)
- Technical screen involving pair programming in codebase (1 hour)
- Three non-coding interviews on design, debugging, and infrastructure (3h 15m)
- No leetcode or whiteboard exercises required