Railway makes it simple to ship anything, and this role bridges the universe of atoms and the universe of bits. The team builds ground-up datacenter infrastructure all over the world, designed for performance, resilience and reliability. Railway is a globally distributed startup of around 21 people serving hundreds of thousands of users. This is a fully remote role available anywhere in the world.
Stack
Requirements
- ▹Built application-level code (Golang, gRPC, Postgres, etc.)
- ▹Made use of OS primitives (syscalls, cgroups, etc.)
- ▹Delivered projects 0 to N, leading and scaling them and seeing solutions become tech debt
- ▹Operated with agency and urgency (remotely a bonus)
- ▹Foresight to ship for today, design for 10x and engineer for 100x in 18 months
- ▹Communicated clearly using RFCs and docs to break up and deliver large, nebulous tasks
- ▹Been on-call and comfortable being so 1-2 weeks per quarter
- ▹Constructed monitoring, alerts and dashboards to get notified before things break
- ▹Confidence to say no to 99% of things and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
Nice to have
- ▹Designed and procured $1M+ hardware for datacenters
- ▹Managed and orchestrated supply chains globally
- ▹Designed rack-level layouts for optimal efficiency (heat/energy)
- ▹Built automated systems for inventory management up to PXE bootstrapping
Soft skills
High ownership and agencyUrgency and gritClear written communicationPrioritization and ability to say noComfort with ambiguity
What we offer
- ▹Great salary
- ▹Full health benefits including dependents
- ▹Strong equity grants
- ▹Equipment stipend
- ▹High-autonomy culture with very few meetings
- ▹High-ownership culture
- ▹Novel problems and solutions at a well-funded startup
- ▹Growth support, including helping you move on to your next area when ready