over 2 years ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Build system-level infrastructure software from first principles to power the Railway engine.
- Develop scalable, performant Golang and Rust gRPC services for use across the company.
- Apply operating-system and distributed-systems concepts involving CPU, memory, networking, kernels, fault tolerance, and resilience.
- Create monitoring for system error boundaries and document operational requirements.
- Prioritize ambiguous startup problems, scale solutions, and replace systems when needed.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities from time to time.
- Complete and discuss an asynchronously designed Container Provisioning Engine during the interview process.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and experience or interest in building fault-tolerant, resilient, and scalable services.
- Strong understanding or curiosity about operating-system primitives, including CPU, memory, networking, and kernels.
- Ability to assess system longevity, implement solutions, monitor them, document requirements, and replace them as needed.
- Strong prioritization, communication, problem-solving, and ownership skills in an ambiguous early-stage startup environment.
- Ability to work effectively with a globally distributed team.
Benefits
- Remote work available anywhere in the world.
- Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, and an equipment stipend.
- Highly autonomous environment with few meetings and a distributed global team.
- Opportunities to work on novel, high-impact infrastructure problems and grow within or beyond 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.