Infrastructure Engineer
Railway
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Build system-level software: our challenges aren't your usual kube-fits-all variety, so be prepared to build things from scratch based on first principles.
- Have a strong understanding or curiosity of OS level primitives.
- Be a student of both distributed systems and simplicity.
- Roll with the boring: build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch to expose your complex capabilities to the wider company in a scalable and performant manner.
- This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.
- You may be oncall from time to time in this role.
Requirements
- A strong understanding of distributed systems.
- A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last.
- The tact to implement your solution.
- A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup.
- A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed.
- A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond.
Benefits
- Great salary
- Full health benefits including dependents
- Strong equity grants
- Equipment stipend
- Autonomy: We have very few meetings.
- Ownership: We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture.
- Novel problems/solutions: We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
- Growth: We want you to grow with us, but we know that talent is loaned.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GolangRustGRPCdistributed systemssystem-level softwareOS level primitives
Soft Skills
communication skillsprioritizationproblem-solvinggrittact