Staff Platform Engineer, UK
Location
Manchester, England
Job Type
Full-time
Category
other-general
Posted
June 26, 2026
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 ...