Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

About this role

Lead Ashby’s Platform & Infrastructure organization, setting its long-term vision and six-month roadmap while improving product performance and reliability. Build and scale the team, manage managers, and partner closely with Product Engineering as the company grows.

About the company

Ashby is a technology company that provides a recruitment platform designed to streamline the hiring process for businesses. They serve various sectors with a focus on enhancing talent acquisition and management through innovative engineering and support solutions.

The team

Platform & Infrastructure team of 11 senior and staff engineers, reporting to the CTO.

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What you'll do

• Set the Platform & Infrastructure vision and maintain a six-month roadmap.
• Grow the organization by hiring engineers and managers and creating a headcount plan.
• Improve collaboration and enablement between Platform & Infrastructure and Product Engineering.
• Assess and improve monitoring, uptime measurement, and incident management.
• Manage hosting and observability vendor relationships and negotiate pricing.
• Hire and manage an additional manager; potentially establish a dedicated DevEx team.
• Contribute hands-on through product and infrastructure changes, particularly during onboarding.

What we're looking for

• Have led through a high-growth period and made sound decisions under pressure, balancing immediate fixes with long-term investments.
• Have experience designing interviews and hiring processes and leading hiring strategy.
• Demonstrate strong cross-functional collaboration and communication, especially in writing.
• Be knowledgeable about platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, Kubernetes, and hardware.
• Have managed managers or engineering leaders and be comfortable leading a geographically distributed team.
• Live within the PST–GMT time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience managing developer experience or developer tools teams.

Benefits

• Equity and bonus offered.
• 10-year stock-option exercise window.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with longer leave where regional requirements apply.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100 monthly education budget, with conference funding available by manager approval.
• Fully covered supplemental health insurance for employees and dependents outside the US.
• Budget for regional meetups and twice-yearly company or department gatherings.

Hiring process

1. 30-minute introduction call with the CTO.
2. One-hour technical screen pairing in the codebase.
3. One-hour leadership experience interview.
4. 45-minute interview with the Head of EMEA Engineering.
5. Three-hour final round with team members covering leadership and technical topics.
6. Reference checks with a former manager, two direct reports, and an engineering peer.