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Senior Infra Engineer: Orchestration

Railway· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Infra Engineer focused on building and evolving Railway's homegrown orchestration engine, integrating with networking, and delivering scalable, immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible. Remote, full-time role with high impact and ownership in a distributed startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Continue to evolve our homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs through a single lens
  • Optimize the efficiency of our bin packing algorithm to maximize utilization/performance and minimize costs
  • Integrate with our networking layer to support a “Scale to Zero” operation for sleeping and waking workloads on demand
  • Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting tens of thousands of users, and the million+ to come
  • Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
  • Interface with our TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose your microservice APIs for both internal and potentially external consumption

Qualifications

  • - A strong understanding of distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
  • - A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last in startup environments (2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months)
  • - Ability to implement solutions, define monitors, and document requirements for when you’re not around
  • - Great sense of direction and prioritization in ambiguous early-stage startup contexts
  • - Grit to dive in, implement, scale, and replace solutions as needed
  • - Strong communication skills to articulate solutions and outcomes

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsPredictive capacity for system agingSolution implementation, monitoring, and documentation

Benefits

  • Great salary
  • Full health benefits including dependents
  • Strong equity grants
  • Equipment stipend
  • Autonomy with limited meetings (Mondays and Fridays for company board)
  • Ownership culture with high accountability
  • Opportunity to work on novel problems and high-leverage solutions
  • Growth opportunities and support for internal or external growth goals
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Shipping great products is hard. Scaling infrastructure is easy.

Railway is an infrastructure platform where you can provision infrastructure, develop with that infrastructure locally, and then deploy to the cloud.

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