About this role
About the Role Railway's Infrastructure Engineering team owns the substrate Railway operates on, from fiber-optic transceivers to the orchestrator that places workloads across our fleet, all tightly integrated for speed. In a Datacenters-focused role, you will drive how we convert dollars into operational compute by selecting datacenter facilities, transits, and hardware, while building and evolving software tooling that lets our small team scale with leverage. What You'll Do
- Build automation for infrastructure (provisioning, configuration management, orchestration, etc.)
- Design and procure $10m+ compute hardware per quarter
- Manage and orchestrate supply chains and vendor relationships globally
- Design rack layouts and floor maps for optimal efficiency
- Construct monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
- Build operational processes to enable smooth hardware repairs, upgrades and installations
- Own and evolve our in-house DCIM and provisioning system: Railyard
- Be oncall 1-2 weeks per quarter
- Communicate clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks What We're Looking For
- Possess strong Linux fundamentals (networking, storage, performance tuning, debugging at the OS layer)
- Have prior experience with hardware deployments or working in operations-heavy environments
- 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
- Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
- We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds