About the Role
Ashby is growing fast, and keeping the platform performant and reliable is a company priority. We are looking for an Engineering leader to take responsibility for performance and reliability, and for building out the team that ensures those. You will report directly to the CTO.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining a long-term vision and 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
- Growing the Platform & Infrastructure team. You’ll hire ICs, managers, and build out a headcount plan.
- Building and maintaining an excellent relationship with Product Engineering.
- Assessing and improving our monitoring and incident management process.
- Maintaining vendor relationships and negotiating pricing for our critical hosting and observability infrastructure, including AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Braintrust.
- Managing managers. Within your first 6 months, you’ll most likely have to hire a manager underneath you.
- Managing developer experience and developer tools, if applicable.
Engineering Culture
Our engineering culture is motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast. We emphasize minimal process with ownership, natural collaboration, deliberate communication, and investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (£240K – £300K) and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
- High-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, fully covered by us.
- Remote work environment with a focus on work-life balance.
Qualifications
- You played an important role leading a company through a high-growth period (either as an IC Lead or Engineering Leader).
- You have experience hiring and building hiring processes.
- You have a track record of excellent collaboration with other departments.
- You are knowledgeable about platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.
- You are a great communicator, particularly in writing.
- You have managed managers.
- You should be comfortable managing a team spanning from the Americas West Coast to Europe. We are only hiring candidates who live in the PST-GMT time zone.
