Infrastructure Engineer

Railway is a company that builds an operating system for developers, making it simple to deploy and manage applications. They are well-funded and have a distributed team across the globe. Their mission is to make software engineers higher leverage by providing powerful tools that reduce the time spent on setup and infrastructure management.

This role is for an Infrastructure Engineer at Railway. In this position, you will build system-level software and have a strong understanding or curiosity of OS level primitives. You will be 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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building system-level software.
• Having a strong understanding or curiosity of OS level primitives.
• Being a student of both distributed systems and simplicity.
• Rolling 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.

The ideal candidate should have:

• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Solid intuition about how long your solutions will last.
• Tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements.
• Great sense of direction and prioritization.
• Sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed.

Railway values autonomy, ownership, and craftsmanship. This is a high impact role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.