almost 2 years ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Build application-level infrastructure code using Golang, gRPC, and Postgres.
- Use operating-system primitives and deliver projects from inception through scale.
- Design and operate globally distributed datacenter infrastructure for performance, resilience, and reliability.
- Create monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to identify issues before failures occur.
- Participate in an on-call rotation of 1–2 weeks per quarter.
- Design and procure datacenter hardware, manage global supply chains, optimize rack-level layouts, and automate inventory and PXE bootstrapping where applicable.
Requirements
- Experience building application-level code with Golang, gRPC, Postgres, or similar technologies.
- Experience using OS primitives such as syscalls and cgroups.
- Experience leading and scaling projects from 0 to N and managing resulting technical debt.
- Ability to design for substantial future scale and deliver large, ambiguous projects using RFCs and documentation.
- Experience with on-call operations and building monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
- Ability to operate with high ownership, agency, urgency, judgment, and clear communication.
- Preferred experience designing and procuring $1m+ datacenter hardware.
- Preferred experience managing global supply chains.
- Preferred experience designing efficient rack-level layouts for heat and energy considerations.
- Preferred experience building automated inventory-management systems through PXE bootstrapping.
Benefits
- Remote work available anywhere in the world.
- Full health benefits including dependents.
- Equity grants.
- Equipment stipend.
- High-autonomy, distributed work environment with few meetings.
- Opportunities to work on novel, high-leverage problems and grow with the company.
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About Railway
Railway is a developer-focused Platform as a Service that lets teams deploy containerized applications, APIs, and managed databases without managing infrastructure. The company offers a usage-based, self-serve cloud platform with workflows for builds, environments, logs, and secrets, aimed at solo builders through startups. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.