Railway
Senior Infra Engineer: Observability
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 5 months ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 5 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
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About the role
Job description
Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage. We believe that people should be given powerful tools so that they can spend less time setting up to do, and more time doing.
Many infrastructure platforms simply focus on how you deploy your singular application, and now how these applications function in concert. Questions like “How do you build systems for zero downtime deployment”, “How do you do service-to-service communications”, etc are usually left up to the engineers to define.
At Railway, our goal is to be an all encompassing solution to all these problems. As such, we take special care as we define our networking infrastructure.
Note: Networking falls under the platform engineering umbrella. If you’re specialized, we’d love to chat! That said, we’d also like it noted you’re probably going to do a lot of non-networking + platform things
“But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and will be self-managing”
- Radia Perlman
About The Role
For this role, you will:
Build ingestion pipelines to consume 1M+ RPS streams of logs, metrics, and other telemetry
Build scalable, fault tolerant alerting engines for notifying users, in real-time, of threshold breaches
Craft rich backend observability APIs, working with product to build amazing experiences for instantly grokking their application
Provide APIs to access realtime log/metrics streams to be consumed by the Dashboard and Product Teams
Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting tens of thousands of users, and the million+ to come.
Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring it’s success.
Interface with our TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose your microservice APIs for both internal and potentially external consumption
This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.
About You
A strong understanding of distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
Interests in VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, and other systems for building observability stacks from the ground up
A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18mo.
The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
Requirements
- ·A strong understanding of distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
- ·Interests in VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, and other systems for building observability stacks from the ground up
- ·A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18mo.
- ·The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
- ·A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
Benefits
- ·At Railway, we provide best in class benefits. Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more. For more details, check back on the main careers page .
- ·Beyond compensation, there are a few things that we believe that make working at Railway truly unique:
- ·Autonomy : We have very few meetings. Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board. We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
- ·Growth : We want you to grow with us, but we know that talent is loaned, so when you figure out what area you want to grow in next, whether it's at Railway or outside, we'll make sure you land there.
- ·No tricks. No surprises. Here's the entire process:
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Railway, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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