The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- 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
- 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
