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Senior Infra Engineer: Compute

Railway· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Infra Engineer focused on networking and platform engineering at Railway, working on eBPF-based routing, Linux storage, performance profiling, and integration with Golang/GRPC microservices and Envoy routing. High impact, high ownership role in a distributed startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Write eBPF programs to perform sidecar-less routing
  • Take advantage of the latest Linux 5.0/6.0 features for userspace block storage device management
  • Utilize flamegraphs to identify performance bottlenecks in current architecture, and design systems moving forward to remove said bottlenecks
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
  • Interface with Golang/GRPC microservice stack and routing layer (Envoy) to implement the above

Qualifications

  • A strong understanding of distributed systems
  • Experience building fault-tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
  • Ability to estimate solution longevity (startup context: 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months)
  • Tact to implement solutions, monitor error boundaries, and document requirements for continuity
  • Direction and prioritization skills in ambiguous, early-stage startup environments
  • Grit to dive into problems, implement, scale, and replace as needed
  • Strong communication skills for clear explanations and collaboration

Skills

Required:eBPFLinux kernel features (5.0/6.0)Performance profilingEngineering Requirements DocumentationGolang/GRPCEnvoy

Benefits

  • Best in class benefits including great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend
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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