Senior Infra Engineer: Observability

Global

About the Position

At Railway, our mission is to empower software engineers by providing them with powerful tools, allowing them to focus less on setup and more on actual development. We aim to be a comprehensive solution to infrastructure challenges, including zero downtime deployment and service-to-service communications.

We are seeking a Senior Infra Engineer: Observability to join our global team and help us build scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Build ingestion pipelines to handle 1M+ RPS streams of logs, metrics, and other telemetry.
• Develop scalable, fault-tolerant alerting engines for real-time notifications of threshold breaches.
• Create rich backend observability APIs in collaboration with the product team.
• Provide APIs for real-time log/metrics streams for Dashboard and Product Teams.
• Develop Golang/Rust GRPC services capable of supporting tens of thousands of users.
• Define infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, adhering to immutable infrastructure principles.
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents to guide the implementation and monitoring of solutions.
• Interface with our TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose microservice APIs.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with observability stacks, including VictoriaMetrics and ClickHouse.
• Ability to build fault-tolerant, resilient, and scalable services.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience with Golang, Rust, GRPC, Terraform, and Ansible.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and full health benefits, including dependents.
• Strong equity grants and equipment stipend.
• Autonomy and ownership in a high-growth, high-autonomy environment.
• Opportunities for creative and high-leverage solutions.
• Growth opportunities with us or beyond.

About the Company

We value and love to work with diverse individuals from all backgrounds. Our startup culture is dynamic, distributed, and fast-paced, with a focus on ownership and high impact.

How We Hire

1. Talk with us about the role: An open-ended discussion to understand your background and aspirations.
2. Work on a small project: Design an observability engine for a theoretical or actual system like Railway.
3. Review your solution with the Team: Discuss your solution and get acquainted with team members.
4. Meet the Team: A meeting with 4 team members from different sections.
5. Offer and Details Chat with CEO: Final discussion about the role, onboarding, and details.

Note: The interview process is two-way. Feel free to ask us anything!

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Final Note: The interview goes both ways. Please ask us questions. Many things! Hard things. That's what we're here for.