Staff Engineering Manager

🕒 July 28

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $225k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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BNSF Railway

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

📦 Logistics

Transport • Logistics

BNSF Railway is a major freight railroad company that provides transportation services across North America. The company emphasizes inclusion, safety, and customer-focused service, and operates a broad range of rail-related functions (train crews, field operations, mechanical and electrical, track/structures/signals, dispatch, and police). BNSF also recruits across many job categories and offers benefits for health, retirement, and development for hourly and salaried employees.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of 6-10 engineers, guiding end-to-end technical execution. • Drive technical vision and strategy across distributed systems. • Mentor junior and senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical solutions. • Ensure secure coding practices and platform reliability. • Own architecture for large-scale systems and making critical technical decisions. • Translate railroad business requirements into scalable digital solutions. • Establish engineering best practices, observability, and technical debt management. • Demonstrate operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US. • Minimum of 9 years’ experience as a software engineer and/or manager. • Minimum of 6 years' experience as an engineer. • 6+ years of programming experience in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.) • Experience with distributed systems and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, API gateways, SQL/NoSQL/Graph databases, caching systems, and serverless platforms • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices • Experience building enterprise products leveraging open-source platform and infrastructure technologies • Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) • Experience with secure coding practices and platform security principles • Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders • Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes • Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and adapt quickly • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Experience leading multiple teams and delivering cross organizational platform and products.

🏖️ Benefits

• An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program. • A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents (including domestic partners), including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, cancer support, and high-quality care network options. • Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost. • Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match). • Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support. • Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program) • Generous leave / time off policies.