Senior Platform Engineer, Storage

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August 3

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Railway

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SaaS • Cloud

Railway is a platform that simplifies infrastructure management from servers to observability, offering a single, scalable, easy-to-use solution. It supports the deployment and scaling of applications, services, volumes, and databases, leveraging GitHub or Docker for integration. Railway focuses on enhancing developer experience by providing automated service discovery, fast networking, and code-free observability tools, enabling efficient vertical and horizontal scaling. This makes it ideal for developers seeking to deploy full-stack applications quickly and efficiently, catering to both small teams and large enterprises.

11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

💰 $20M Series A on 2022-05

📋 Description

• Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage. We believe that people should be given powerful tools so that they can spend less time setting up to do, and more time doing. • Building the infrastructure which powers the Railway engine is the most core problem at Railway. As an infrastructure engineer working on storage, you will be directly responsible for designing software and hardware to back performant, high reliability block storage and object storage systems backing millions of applications. The solutions you build will be instrumental in not only scaling internal operations, but scaling the company to infinity and beyond!

🎯 Requirements

• Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services • Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles • Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs) • 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, creator monitors for it’s 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

• Great salary • full health benefits including dependents • strong equity grants • equipment stipend • and much more