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 About you

  We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds Things to know For better or worse, we’re a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.

  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. 1) 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. 2) Work on a small project to discuss in the interview Asynchronously implement the following:

  You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time. Ask away! 3) Review your solution with the Team 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. 4) 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. 5) Chat with CEO Sit down with our founder and CEO for 30 minutes.

  This is a 1:1, open ended conversation. 6) Offer call Finally, we will present the offers, hammer out the details about your position, tee up onboarding, and start our journey together. Final Note: The interview goes both ways. Once again, please ask us things.

  Many things! Hard things. That’s what we’re here for.