About this role
About the Role Railway is looking for a Storage Engineer to lead the development, operation, and evolution of Railway's block storage systems. You will set the architectural direction, own interfaces with orchestration services, and drive hardware specifications to support high-availability across cloud and bare-metal environments. What You'll Do
- Lead the development of Railway's block storage systems
- Support the operation of storage systems and participate in on-call rotations
- Drive the specification of storage server hardware
- Build systems to support capacity planning
- Design and build interfaces with orchestration services to support coordinated workflows such as on-line backups and zero-downtime/live workload migration
- Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
- Set the longer-term architectural direction to scale the platform What We're Looking For
- You've built and operated distributed storage systems and have a strong grasp of first-principles.
- You have strong systems engineering experience in one or more of: filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
- You have a deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems.
- You have experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical.
- You have a strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux.
- You have strong foundation in systems programming with Rust.
- You're comfortable owning a problem alone at a small company.
- You have 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 12-18 months.
- You have the grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed.
- You communicate well enough to get your point across, your solution implemented, and documented for when you're not around. Nice to Have