Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

About this role

Lead Ashby’s Platform & Infrastructure organization, with responsibility for the company’s performance, reliability, and infrastructure strategy as the product scales. Set the team’s long-term vision and roadmap, grow the organization, and partner closely with Product Engineering to support fast, reliable development.

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-level engineers, reporting to the Co-Founder and CTO.

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What you'll do

• Set the long-term vision and six-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Grow the team, develop a headcount plan, and hire engineers and managers.
• Build strong partnerships with Product Engineering to improve performance and reliability.
• Assess and improve monitoring, uptime measurement, and incident management.
• Manage critical infrastructure vendor relationships and negotiate pricing.
• Manage managers and maintain relationships with engineers across the Americas and Europe.
• Potentially establish a dedicated Developer Experience team.

What we're looking for

• Leadership experience through a company’s high-growth period, making trade-offs between urgent fixes and long-term investments.
• Experience building hiring processes, designing interview loops, and leading hiring strategy.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially in writing.
• Knowledge of platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.
• Experience leading engineering teams with autonomy and high ownership.
• Comfort managing a distributed team across the Americas and Europe.
• Must live in a time zone between PST and GMT.

Nice to have

• Experience managing developer experience or developer tools teams.
• Experience establishing specialized infrastructure roles, such as database administration.

Benefits

• Equity, with a 10-year stock-option exercise window.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100 monthly education budget, with larger expenses such as conferences available with manager approval.
• US health insurance premiums fully covered for employees and dependents.
• Budget for local meetups and in-person team gatherings.

Hiring process

1. Introduction call with the Co-Founder and CTO (30 minutes).
2. Pairing technical screen in Ashby’s codebase (1 hour).
3. Leadership experience interview (1 hour).
4. Interview with the Head of EMEA Engineering (45 minutes).
5. Final round with team members covering leadership and technical topics (3 hours).
6. Reference checks with a former manager, two direct reports, and an engineering peer.