About this role
About the Role Join Railway to evolve our homegrown orchestration engine, manage clusters, containers, and VMs, and build scalable systems that power millions of users. You will work across Go/Rust services, immutable infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible, and our networking layer to enable Scale to Zero and on-demand wake/sleep of workloads. What You'll Do
- Continue to evolve our homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs through a single lens
- Optimize the efficiency of our bin packing algorithm to maximize utilization/performance and minimize costs
- Integrate with our networking layer to support a Scale to Zero operation for sleeping and waking workloads on demand
- Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting tens of thousands of users, and the million+ to come
- 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 defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
- Interface with our TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose your microservice APIs for both internal and potentially external consumption What We're Looking For
- A strong understanding of distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
- A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18mo
- The tact to implement your solution, create 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
- We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds Nice to Have
- Networking specialization is a plus; role includes significant networking + platform tasks Compensation & Benefits
- Salary and benefits not disclosed in the posting