Railway
Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration
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
Work from anywhere
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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.
“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 and maintain our host provisioning stack: PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents that bring new bare metal online quickly and confidently
Continue to evolve our homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs through a single lens
Optimize the efficiency of our bin packing algorithm to maximize utilization/performance and minimize costs
Own the internal tooling that Railway engineers use to interact with our fleet every day
Build out internal observability and alerting so we catch fleet problems before customers feel them
Design and maintain the CI pipelines that ship our infrastructure code safely
Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting millions of users
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
The arc of this role is more internal-facing than user-facing. You're building the platform that Railway engineers run on. 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 and what it takes to operate them. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services, and you care about what happens when they break at 3am
Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning, configuration management, and the unglamorous-but-critical work of getting hardware production-ready
Comfort building and operating internal tools. You understand that developer experience inside the company matters as much as the product outside it
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, create monitors for its error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you're not around
Requirements
- ·A strong understanding of distributed systems and what it takes to operate them. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services, and you care about what happens when they break at 3am
- ·Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning, configuration management, and the unglamorous-but-critical work of getting hardware production-ready
- ·Comfort building and operating internal tools. You understand that developer experience inside the company matters as much as the product outside it
- ·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, create monitors for its error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you're not around
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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