Railway

Infrastructure Engineer

Remote (United States) · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 778 days ago

GoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLRESTgRPCCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome
You may be oncall from time to time in this role

We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
Build system-level software: our challenges aren't your usual kube-fits-all variety, so be prepared to build things from scratch based on first principles
Roll with the boring: build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch to expose your complex capabilities to the wider company in a scalable and performant manner
The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it's error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you're not around
A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
Novel problems/solutions: We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
We want you to own it.

Have a strong understanding or curiosity of OS level primitives - our business hinges on efficiency, so that means being masters of CPU, Memory, Network and the Kernel that wields it
Be a student of both distributed systems and simplicity - you know how to reach for the RAFT but you also know how far you can get with Postgres
This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.
A strong understanding of distributed systems.

This is a remote position available anywhere in the world!
Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage.
Learn about your problem solving skills.
A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond

Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more.

At Railway, we provide best in class benefits.
Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more.

We have very few meetings.
Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board.
We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture.
We hope that you'll come in, help us, and over the course of many years do the best work of your life.
When we bring you onboard, we expect you to change the company.
0-5m: introduction
5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution
50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc
Meet the Team
You'll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company.
Autonomy: We have very few meetings. Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board. We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
Ownership: We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture. We hope that you'll come in, help us, and over the course of many years do the best work of your life. When we bring you onboard, we expect you to change the company.

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