Staff Platform Engineer - UK

Ashby
United Kingdom, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 138,000 - 224,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Infrastructure-as-code"]

Join Ashby's EMEA Engineering team as a Staff Platform Engineer to build scalable, secure infrastructure and developer tooling for a rapidly growing talent platform. Own end-to-end platform projects, from refining a DSL-to-SQL compiler to implementing SRE guardrails, canary deployments, and event-driven architecture. Collaborate with a small, async team to ship features with minimal oversight and scale for tens of millions in ARR.

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Ashby
Ashby
9 months ago

Staff Platform Engineer - UK

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Job Summary

Join Ashby's EMEA Engineering team as a Staff Platform Engineer to build scalable, secure infrastructure and developer tooling for a rapidly growing talent platform. Own end-to-end platform projects, from refining a DSL-to-SQL compiler to implementing SRE guardrails, canary deployments, and event-driven architecture. Collaborate with a small, async team to ship features with minimal oversight and scale for tens of millions in ARR.
Location: United Kingdom, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end platform projects from design to deployment and maintenance.
  • •Work on improving infrastructure and developer tooling, including the DSL-to-SQL compiler and related tooling.
  • •Create automated guardrails for security and privacy of customer data.
  • •Help teams ship features quickly via canary deploys, gradual rollouts, and feature flags while keeping complexity manageable.
  • •Define and implement SLOs and SLIs with the engineering team, ensuring reliable performance and observability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 138,000 - 224,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityPaid LeaveParental LeaveLearning BudgetEquipment Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing and operating scalable infrastructure and platform services, preferably with IaC and cloud (AWS) deployments
  • •Strong software development skills, comfortable contributing to codebase (TypeScript/Node.js) and building tools for developers
  • •Experience with canary deployments, feature flags, canary deploys and gradual rollouts to enable safe releases
  • •Ability to define and implement SLOs/SLA metrics and corresponding SLIs, with guardrails for security and data privacy
  • •Familiarity with event-driven architectures, data warehouses, and building resilient, observable systems
Experience:SaaSHRTechTalent acquisitionRecruiting
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationInfrastructure-as-code
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsReactApollo GraphQLPostgresRedisAWS

Company Brief

Ashby
Ashby builds an all‑in‑one recruiting platform (ATS, CRM, scheduling, analytics and AI features) that helps high‑growth companies streamline hiring, improve candidate experience, and deliver data‑driven talent decisions.
Industry: HR Tech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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