Infrastructure Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build system-level software from scratch, since Railway's challenges aren't the usual kube-fits-all variety
• ▹Develop a strong understanding of OS-level primitives: CPU, memory, network, and the kernel
• ▹Balance distributed systems thinking with simplicity (know when to reach for RAFT vs. Postgres)
• ▹Build Golang/Rust gRPC services from scratch to expose complex capabilities in a scalable, performant way
• ▹High impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture and trajectory
• ▹Occasional on-call participation

Requirements

• ▹Strong understanding of distributed systems, enjoys building fault tolerant, resilient, scalable services
• ▹Good intuition about how long solutions will last (startups can hope for 12-18 months, 2-3 orders of magnitude)
• ▹Tact to implement solutions, build monitors for error boundaries, and document requirements
• ▹Great sense of direction and prioritization amid early-stage startup ambiguity
• ▹Grit to dive into a problem, implement, scale, and replace a solution when needed
• ▹Great communication skills for conveying your point, solution, and beyond

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend
• ▹High autonomy, very few meetings (just a Monday and a Friday company board)
• ▹High-ownership, high-autonomy company culture
• ▹Novel, exciting problems at a well-funded startup
• ▹Room to grow, whether at Railway or beyond

About the company

Railway's mission is to make software engineers higher leverage — a fully distributed team (currently 21 people) serving hundreds of thousands of users, enabling development without managing servers.