Infra Engineer – Datacenters
Railway
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- This role bridges the universe of atoms, to the universe of bits.
- We’ve built ground up infrastructure to deliver better-than-best-in-class experience to all of our users, by building datacenters all over the world.
- They’re designed for performance of course, but also for resilience and reliability. Doesn’t matter how good your stuff is if it doesn’t stay up right?
Requirements
- Built application level code (Golang, GRPC, Postgres, etc)
- Made use of OS primitives (syscalls, cgroups, etc)
- 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
- Communicated clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
- Been oncall and know that you will be 1-2 weeks per quarter
- Constructed monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
- Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
- Designed and procured $1m+ hardware for datacenters (desired)
- Managed and orchestrated supply chains globally (desired)
- Designed rack level layouts for optimal efficiency (heat/energy/etc) (desired)
- Built automated systems for inventory management up to PXE bootstrapping (desired)
Benefits
- Great salary
- full health benefits including dependents
- strong equity grants
- equipment stipend
- very few meetings
- high ownership
- high autonomy culture
- novel problems and solutions
- growth opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GolangGRPCPostgressyscallscgroupsmonitoringalertsdashboardsautomated systemsinventory management
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipforesightgritagencyurgency