Staff Platform Engineer - UK
Ashby · Remote · United Kingdom · Cardiff · Birmingham · Bristol · Manchester · Leeds · Oxford · London · Cambridge · Glasgow · Edinburgh · Belfast ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote (UK)
- TypeScript + AWS
- No Leetcode interviews
- Unlimited PTO
Join Ashby's infrastructure team to build a paved road for engineering excellence. You will tackle scaling challenges, optimize internal tools, and ensure security while maintaining high velocity. The culture emphasizes ownership, async communication, and minimal process, allowing you to drive technical decisions independently.
What you'll do
- Optimize the internal DSL-to-SQL compiler and related developer tools
- Create automated guardrails for customer data security and privacy
- Implement canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags
- Define SLOs and implement corresponding SLIs with the business
- 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 a growth stage with millions of data points
- Strong coding skills in TypeScript for both application and platform levels
- Proficiency in SQL for data modeling and performance optimization
- Ability to manage projects independently without dedicated project managers
- Comfortable evaluating risk and making autonomous technical decisions
- Preference for written asynchronous communication over live meetings
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes debugging and database optimization
- Familiarity with security enforcement and infrastructure updates
- Background in analyzing Typescript traces for issue resolution
Stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Apollo GraphQL
- Postgres
- Redis
- AWS
- Datadog
- Sentry
How you'll work
- Fully remote position based in the UK
- Follow-the-sun on-call rotation for all engineers
- Less than two hours of meetings per week on average
- In-person meetups twice a year for team and company
- Flexible hours with focus on output rather than presence
What you get
- Competitive salary and equity with 10-year exercise window
- Unlimited paid time off with encouragement to use it
- Minimum 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture
- $100 monthly education budget and $250 tool budget
- Fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents
Hiring process
- Optional 30-minute recruiter screen
- 15-30 minute introduction call with Hiring Manager
- 1-hour live technical screen pairing in the actual codebase
- Three non-coding interviews focusing on design and debugging
- No Leetcode or whiteboard exercises involved