About the company
At Railway, we make it simple to ship anything. A lot goes into that. This role bridges the universe of atoms, to the universe of bits.
We’ve built ground up infrastructure to deliver better-than-best-in-class experience to all of our users, by building datacenters all over the world.
They’re designed for performance of course, but also for resilience and reliability. Doesn’t matter how good your stuff is if it doesn’t stay up right?
Responsibilities
- Deliver projects 0→N. Lead it, scaled it, seen your “brilliant solutions” become tech debt, etc
- Operate with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)
- Have enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
- Communicate clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
- Be oncall and know that you will be 1-2 weeks per quarter
- Construct monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
- Build the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
Requirements
- Built application level code (Golang, GRPC, Postgres, etc)
- Made use of OS primitives (syscalls, cgroups, etc)
- Delivered projects 0→N. Lead it, scaled it, seen your “brilliant solutions” become tech debt, etc
- Operated with agency and urgency (bonus points if remotely!)
- Had enough foresight to ship for today, design for 10x, and engineer for 100x in 18mo
- Communicated clearly using RFCs/Docs/etc to break up + deliver large, nebulous tasks
- Been oncall and know that you will be 1-2 weeks per quarter
- Constructed monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to notify you before things break
- Built the confidence to say no to 99% of things, and the grit to deliver the 1% that matter
Desired qualifications:
- Designed and procured $1m+ hardware for datacenters
- Managed and orchestrated supply chains globally
- Designed rack level layouts for optimal efficiency (heat/energy/etc)
- Built automated systems for inventory management up to PXE bootstrapping
Conditions
- Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more
- Autonomy: We have very few meetings. Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board.
- Ownership: We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture.
- Novel problems/solutions: We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
- Growth: We want you to grow with us, but we know that talent is loaned, so when you figure out what area you want to grow in next, whether it's at Railway or outside, we'll make sure you land t