[Hiring] Head of Platform & Infrastructure Engineering @Ashby

Role Description

In this role, you will report directly to me, and your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining a long-term vision and 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Growing the Platform & Infrastructure team.
• Hiring ICs, managers, and building out a headcount plan, including determining if more specialized roles need to be established (e.g., DB Admin).
• 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 critical hosting and observability infrastructure, including AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Braintrust.
• Managing other leaders and hiring a manager underneath you within your first 6 months.
• If you have experience managing developer experience and developer tools, building out a dedicated team for DevEx.
• Ensuring that our engineering culture continues to thrive by fostering an environment that allows exceptional Engineers to excel.

Qualifications

• Played an important role leading a company through a high-growth period (either as an IC Lead or Engineering Leader).
• Experience making high-quality decisions under pressure, balancing short-term fixes and long-term investments.
• Experience hiring and building hiring processes, and enjoyment in it.
• Designed interviews, interview loops, and led hiring strategy.
• Track record of excellent collaboration with other departments.
• Key contributor to company-level initiatives involving Product Engineering, Product, Sales, or Support.
• Knowledgeable about platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.
• Great communicator, particularly in writing.
• Comfortable managing a team spanning from the Americas West Coast to Europe.

Requirements

• Experience managing teams and leaders.
• Ability to assess and improve monitoring and incident management processes.
• Strong negotiation skills with vendors.
• Experience with platform and infrastructure technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary 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.
• Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents in the US, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.

Company Description

Ashby is committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. We confirm that this advertisement is for an active, existing vacancy within our organization. We are dedicated to creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work.