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Senior Infra Engineer: Datacenters

Railway· Infrastructure Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote)Full-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Infra Engineer focused on datacenters at Railway. Owns the hardware lifecycle from facility selection and procurement to software tooling, DCIM, and on-call responsibilities, enabling scalable compute across a distributed datacenter fleet.

Responsibilities

  • Build automation for infrastructure (provisioning, configuration management, orchestration, etc.)
  • Design and procure $10m+ compute hardware per quarter
  • Manage and orchestrate supply chains and vendor relationships globally
  • Design rack layouts and floor maps for optimal efficiency
  • Construct monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
  • Build operational processes to enable smooth hardware repairs, upgrades and installations
  • Own and evolve our in-house DCIM and provisioning system: Railyard
  • Be oncall 1-2 weeks per quarter
  • Communicate clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks

Qualifications

  • Posses strong Linux fundamentals (networking, storage, performance tuning, debugging at the OS layer)
  • Have prior experience with hardware deployments or working in operations-heavy environments
  • Delivered projects 0→N. Lead it, scaled it, seen your "brilliant solutions" become tech debt, etc
  • Operated with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)
  • Had enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
  • Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter

Skills

Required:Linux fundamentalsHardware deployment

Benefits

  • Great salary
  • full health benefits including dependents
  • strong equity grants
  • equipment stipend
  • autonomy and ownership culture
  • growth opportunities
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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