Railway

Railway

Infra Engineer - Datacenters

Remote (United States)

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 533 days ago
GoPostgreSQLRESTgRPCExcelProcurementInventory ManagementProblem Solving

About the role

  • This is a remote position available anywhere in the world!
  • Linkedin makes us show a country, but we hire the best people wherever they are.
  • This role bridges the universe of atoms, to the universe of bits.

Responsibilities

  • So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one
  • We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
  • Lead it, scaled it, seen your "brilliant solutions" become tech debt, etc
  • Had enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
  • Communicated clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
  • Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
  • Designed and procured $1m+ hardware for datacenters
  • Designed rack level layouts for optimal efficiency (heat/energy/etc)
  • We want you to own it.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.

Skills

  • Learn about your problem solving skills.

Compensation

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

Benefits

  • At Railway, we provide best in class benefits.
  • Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more.
  • Operated with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)

Company info

  • 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.
  • We abhor "busywork" and think, whether it's community, engineering, operations, etc there's always opportunity for creative and high leverage solutions.
  • At the time of writing we're 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users.
  • We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.

This listing is sourced directly from Railway's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.