We're looking for a curious, rigorous, problem-hungry site reliability engineer (who codes!) to carry the ball as we bring Ashby to the big leagues. Ashby builds software that lets talent teams build an efficient, delightful, respectful hiring process. Similarly, you're an engineer who wants to build a "paved road" that excellent engineering teams can safely take to the moon and back.
About the role and how we work
I'm Elénie, a Director of Engineering at Ashby. I've been an SRE for a long time, but I didn't begin there. I started my career building algorithms to process large 3D models for civil engineers and route packets faster for telecommunications. There, I found that what makes or breaks the customer experience is the result of often unseen but critical infrastructure work.
As an SRE at Ashby, you'll do that and more. Every Product Engineer owns their projects and ships with minimal oversight. We, as SREs, approach this from a practical view. But with great power comes great responsibility: we handle personal and confidential data about some of the biggest decisions we ever make at work. As we grow, more and bigger customers rely on us to be reliable and secure.
We're at an inflection point where our ability to scale and deliver a seamless experience has a make-or-break impact. We need someone like you to make good decisions, debug thorny issues, and build us a future-proof platform that can withstand this scale. Our small but mighty infrastructure team has set up a secure and simple environment for our growing product team to build in. That's where you come in: you will own projects end-to-end and have an impact on core parts of the Ashby developer and user experience. For instance, you could work on:
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 the 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.We're looking for someone who can build systems that an engineer would like to work with: mature and boring but open-minded and approachable. To be an SRE in today's world, you have to be extremely comfortable evaluating risk.
Why you should or shouldn't apply
You should apply if:
You never stop. You get weirdly obsessed about a problem that doesn't yet make sense.You don't take shortcuts. You're speaking up for the future user, the edge case, the doomsday design.You care about what you do and the team you do it with.You've built infrastructure at a slightly later stage than Ashby is at.You're a Swiss army knife. You'll be the third SRE, so you'll get every hard problem the company faces.You should not apply if:
You don't want to make your own decisions on what is the best paved road to build for Ashby.You hate SQL.You don't want to code.Your primary mode of communicating best practices to engineers is live meetings.You've never delivered a project, on your own, without someone prodding you for updates.Technology Stack
Our tech stack includes TypeScript (frontend & backend), Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, and Sentry on 100% cloud-based (AWS) infra.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.10-year exercise window for stock options.Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US.Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.$100/month education budget.Top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents.Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
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