This is a remote position available anywhere in the world! Linkedin makes us show a country, but we hire the best people wherever they are. 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. Building the infrastructure which powers the Railway engine is the most core problem at Railway. As a infrastructure engineer, you will be directly responsible for exposing the knobs, bells, and whistles that allow the users to build to the wildest dreams. The tools you build will be instrumental in not only scaling internal operations, but scaling the company to infinite and beyond! About The Role For this role, you will:

• Build system-level software: our challenges aren’t your usual kube-fits-all variety, so be prepared to build things from scratch based on first principles.
• Have a strong understanding or curiosity of OS level primitives – our business hinges on efficiency, so that means being masters of CPU, Memory, Network and the Kernel that wields it.
• Be a student of both distributed systems and simplicity – you know how to reach for the RAFT but you also know how far you can get with Postgres.
• Roll with the boring: build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch to expose your complex capabilities to the wider company in a scalable and performant manner.
• This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.
• You may be oncall from time to time in this role.
• A strong understanding of distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services.
• 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 perks 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:

  How we hire No tricks. No surprises. Here’s the entire process:

  • Talk with us about the role.

  This is completely open ended and we’re just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.

  Asynchronously implement the following:

  You’ll sit down with someone on the team and go over the above. We’ll poke into your solution, as well as get you acquainted with two more members of the team. Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.

  Prework (submitted before your interview): Complete your solution

  • Meet the Team.

  You’ll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company. Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.

  Finally, we will go over the process, the role, and hammer out the details about your position, onboarding, and all the deets. #Global