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Senior Infra Engineer: Storage

Railway· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Storage Engineer role focused on building, evolving, and operating Railway's block-storage systems, with emphasis on a log-structured, high-availability storage platform across cloud and bare-metal environments. Remote, full-time position with on-call responsibilities and high ownership in a fast-moving startup.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of Railway's block storage systems
  • Support the operation of storage systems and participate in on-call rotations
  • Drive the specification of storage server hardware
  • Build systems to support capacity planning
  • Design and build interfaces with orchestration services to support coordinated workflows such as on-line backups and zero-downtime/live workload migration
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
  • Set the longer-term architectural direction to scale the platform

Qualifications

  • You've built and operated distributed storage systems and have a strong grasp of first-principles.
  • You have strong systems engineering experience in one or more of: filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
  • You have a deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems.
  • You have experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical.
  • You have a strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux.
  • You have strong foundation in systems programming with Rust.
  • You're comfortable owning a problem alone at a small company.
  • You have a solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months.
  • You have the grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed.
  • You communicate well enough to get your point across, your solution implemented, and documented for when you're not around.

Skills

Required:Distributed storage systemsFilesystems and block devicesRust
Nice to have:Linux I/O performance engineering

Benefits

  • Great salary
  • full health benefits including dependents
  • strong equity grants
  • equipment stipend
  • autonomy
  • ownership culture
  • novel problems/solutions
  • growth opportunities
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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