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Senior Product Engineer: Scalability

Railway· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Backend-leaning role focused on scaling high-throughput systems at Railway, with emphasis on billing, fraud, and platform-wide scalability including workers, queues, event pipelines, and databases. Owns features end-to-end, from architecture to potential UI impact.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and scale the pipelines that turn raw usage into accurate, real-time billing — metering, aggregation, rating, and invoicing across millions of events, from ingestion in ClickHouse to the rating engine.
  • Build payment flows that are correct under concurrency and partial failure: idempotent charges, retries, reconciliation, and clean handling of provider edge cases (Stripe and beyond).
  • Develop fraud and abuse detection — signal collection, real-time scoring, automated mitigation — that protects platform margin without getting in legitimate users' way.
  • Scale the systems everything else depends on: Postgres under heavy write load, Node.js services under pressure, and long-running workflows orchestrated with Temporal where exactly-once semantics and durability actually matter.
  • Build TypeScript + GraphQL APIs where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable.
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success and scaling it further.
  • Contribute to our open-source repositories (CLI, Typescript SDK, Railpack, etc.) — Rust experience, or the desire to learn it, helps here.
  • Be oncall from time to time.

Qualifications

  • An ability to autonomously lead, design, and implement backend systems where correctness, consistency, and auditability are first-class requirements.
  • A track record of scaling systems — you've taken a pipeline, service, or database that was falling over and made it handle 10x, and you know which tools to reach for (and when polling stops being enough).
  • Deep expertise in Postgres and relational data modeling — you reach for the right consistency guarantees, understand the cost of getting them wrong, and know how Postgres itself behaves at scale.
  • Strong working knowledge of Node.js internals — the event loop, memory behavior, and what to do when a service degrades under load.
  • Experience managing complex asynchronous and long-running backend jobs, ideally with a workflow engine like Temporal, for things like billing runs or payment reconciliation.
  • Familiarity with the realities of money movement: payment providers, idempotency, retries, reconciliation, and their failure modes. Direct billing, payments, or fraud experience is a strong plus.
  • A security and abuse-aware mindset — you instinctively think about how a system can be gamed, and you design accordingly.
  • A desire to be a part of the entire project development process, from research gathering and planning, to implementation and monitoring.
  • Great written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions in a mostly-asynchronous manner.

Skills

Required:PostgresNode.jsTypeScript
Nice to have:Temporal

Benefits

  • Autonomy: Few meetings, emphasis on ownership and high-leverage work.
  • Ownership: High autonomy culture with long-term impact.
  • Novel problems/solutions: Opportunity to implement creative and high-leverage solutions.
  • Growth: Support for career growth and transitions withinRailway.
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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