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Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

Railway· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Infra Engineer focused on bare metal provisioning, orchestration, and internal platform tooling to enable high-leverage engineering at Railway. Internal-facing role building the platform Railway engineers run on, with emphasis on scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure, automation, and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain our host provisioning stack: PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents that bring new bare metal online quickly and confidently
  • Utilize industry standard orchestration (Kubernetes) as well as 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
  • Own the internal tooling that Railway engineers use to interact with our fleet every day
  • Build out internal observability and alerting so we catch fleet problems before customers feel them
  • Design and maintain the CI pipelines that ship our infrastructure code safely
  • Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
  • Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting millions of users
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success

Qualifications

  • A strong understanding of distributed systems and what it takes to operate them
  • Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning, configuration management, and getting hardware production-ready
  • Comfort building and operating internal tools
  • Intuition about how long solutions last in startups (2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months)
  • Ability to implement solutions, create monitors, and document requirements
  • Good prioritization amid ambiguity in an early-stage startup
  • Grit to dive into problems, scale solutions, and replace as needed
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration and advocacy

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsBare metal provisioningInternal tooling

Benefits

  • Best in class benefits including full health benefits (including dependents)
  • Strong equity grants
  • Equipment stipend
  • Autonomy with limited meetings (Monday and Friday reviews)
  • Ownership culture with high autonomy
  • Opportunity to work on novel problems and high-leverage solutions
  • Growth opportunities and support for internal or external career development
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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