Senior Infra Engineer – Observability

Railway

Build observability systems for handling telemetric data streams at Railway. Ensure system resilience and scalability while collaborating across teams.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleDistributed SystemsGoGraphQLGRPCRustTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build ingestion pipelines to consume 1M+ RPS streams of logs, metrics, and other telemetry
Build scalable, fault tolerant alerting engines for notifying users, in real-time, of threshold breaches
Craft rich backend observability APIs, working with product to build amazing experiences
Provide APIs to access realtime log/metrics streams to be consumed by the Dashboard and Product Teams
Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting tens of thousands of users
Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea to success
Interface with our TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose your microservice APIs for both internal and potentially external consumption

Requirements

What you’ll need

A strong understanding of distributed systems
Interests in VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, and other systems for building observability stacks from the ground up
A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last
The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for its error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
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

Comp & perks

Full health benefits including dependents
Strong equity grants
Equipment stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangRustGRPCTerraformAnsibledistributed systemsobservability APIsreal-time processingEngineering Requirement Documentsmonitoring

Soft Skills

communicationprioritizationproblem-solvinggrittactintuitiondirectionadaptabilitycollaborationcreativity