Platform Engineer
About this role
About the Role This role is about building and maintaining Railway's internal platform for provisioning, scheduling, and operating the fleet of compute resources. It is a high-impact, internal-facing role that enables other engineers to work efficiently and with high leverage. What You'll Do
- Build and maintain our host provisioning stack: PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents to bring new bare metal online quickly and confidently.
- Utilize industry-standard orchestration (Kubernetes) and evolve our homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs through a single lens.
- Optimize bin packing to maximize utilization/performance and minimize costs.
- Own internal tooling that Railway engineers use to interact with our fleet daily.
- Build out internal observability and alerting so we catch fleet problems before customers.
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