Staff Platform Engineer, UK

About the Role

We’re looking for a curious, rigorous, problem‑hungry platform engineer who codes to build the future‑proof infrastructure that powers Ashby’s hiring platform.

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

Profile & Fit

• Persevering solve‑the‑problem mentality: obsessed with finding solutions to un...