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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.
Building the infrastructure which powers the Railway engine is the most core problem at Railway. As an 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!
“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”
Curious? Here are 3 blog posts that dive into exciting projects this team has worked on: 1, 2, 3
Want to learn about our work culture? Here is a multi-part blog series that will help you see the unique ways our team works (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).
Required Qualifications/Experience
Expect to need all of these, day to day, to excel at Railway
Built application level code (Golang, GRPC, Postgres, etc)
Made use of OS primitives (syscalls, cgroups, etc)
Delivered projects 0→N. Lead it, scaled it, seen your “brilliant solutions” become tech debt, etc
Operated with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)
Had enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
Communicated clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
Been oncall and know that you will be 1-2 weeks per quarter
Constructed monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
Desired Qualifications/Experience
Expect to go deep in 1-2 of these to do the best work of your life
Baremetal Networking at 1T+ request/mo scale (eBGP/eBPF, L2-L7, Wireguard)
Orchestration at 100m+ containers scale (Runtimes/Hypervisors, Live-migrations, RTOS)
Metrics/Logs/Traces at 1T request/mo scale (Vector, VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse)
Block storage, filesystems, replication at Petabyte/drive scale (ZFS, Ceph, VirtioFS)
Efficient OCI build/transfer at TBps/sec scale (BuildKit, SOCI, Zot, overlayfs)
Building “datacenters” (in quotes because closet server racks and HomeLabs count!)
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.
Benefits and 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.
Work on a small project to discuss in the interview
Asynchronously implement the following:
Architect a Container Provisioning Engine to power something like Railway
Interview Structure (60 Minutes):
Pre-work (before your interview): Complete your solution (advised)
0-5m: introduction
5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution
50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc
You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time. Ask away!
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.
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.
Chat with CEO
Sit down with our founder and CEO for 30 minutes. This is a 1:1, open ended conversation.
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.
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Open job postingAbout the company
Railway's mission is to make software engineers higher leverage by providing powerful tools that allow them to spend less time setting up and more time doing. They are building the infrastructure that powers the Railway engine.