Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the Co-Founder and CTO.

• Develop and sustain a long-term vision along with a six-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.

• Expand the Platform & Infrastructure team by recruiting individual contributors and managers while establishing a headcount plan.

• Evaluate the necessity for specialized positions such as Database Administrator.

• Foster and maintain a strong relationship with the Product Engineering team.

• Empower Product Engineering to operate swiftly without sacrificing performance or reliability.

• Review and enhance monitoring and incident-management processes.

• Enhance uptime tracking and collaboration with Support during incidents.

• Sustain vendor relationships and negotiate pricing for AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Braintrust.

• Oversee other leaders and recruit a manager for the role within the initial six months.

• Possibly manage developer experience and developer tools, establishing a dedicated DevEx team.

• Contribute to preserving Ashby’s engineering culture and high-ownership operational model.

• Deliver product, feature, and infrastructure updates within the first three months.

• Conduct regular reviews at 30-day, 60-day, 90-day, and six-month intervals with the CTO.

⛳️ Requirements

• Key leadership position during a high-growth phase, either as an IC Lead or Engineering Leader.

• Proven experience in making high-quality decisions under pressure while balancing immediate solutions with long-term investments.

• Background in hiring and developing hiring processes, including designing interviews and leading hiring strategies.

• Demonstrated success in collaborating closely with Product Engineering, Product, Sales, or Support.

• Familiarity with platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, traffic management between Load Balancers and Pods, and the impact of underlying hardware on cloud abstractions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication capabilities.

• Comfortable managing a team that spans from the Americas West Coast to Europe.

• Must reside in the PST-GMT time zone.

• Experience in managing other managers.

• Coding experience and a commitment to staying updated with technology.

• Ability to excel in a senior, autonomous engineering environment.

• Willingness to engage in a 5-round interview process that includes a technical screening in the company codebase.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• 10-year exercise window for stock options.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave; this may be extended outside the US to comply with regional requirements.

• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture.

• $100/month education budget; higher-cost items such as conferences are covered with manager approval.

• US health insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and their dependents.

• Fully covered supplemental health insurance for employees and their dependents in other countries.

• Opportunities to meet in person at least twice annually.

• Small budget available for colleagues to meet in their respective cities or regions.

• Remote work environment characterized by low meetings and high ownership.

• Flexible work hours allowing for personal scheduling.