Infra Engineer - Datacenters

Railway
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Ownership","On-call","Documentation"]

Remote, high-ownership infra engineer role focused on building and maintaining datacenter infrastructure. You will write application-level code in Golang with GRPC and Postgres, leverage OS primitives, and drive projects from conception to scale. Expect on-call rotations, RFC/Docs-driven communication, and a culture of autonomy, resilience, and building for 10x in 18 months.

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Railway
Railway
1 year ago

Infra Engineer - Datacenters

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Job Summary

Remote, high-ownership infra engineer role focused on building and maintaining datacenter infrastructure. You will write application-level code in Golang with GRPC and Postgres, leverage OS primitives, and drive projects from conception to scale. Expect on-call rotations, RFC/Docs-driven communication, and a culture of autonomy, resilience, and building for 10x in 18 months.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and maintain datacenter infrastructure components in collaboration with the Platform team.
  • •Document and communicate plans, RFCs, and progress to break down large tasks into deliverable work.
  • •Develop monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to detect issues before they impact users.
  • •Lead or co-lead projects from 0→N, scaling solutions while managing tech debt.
  • •Be on-call for 1-2 weeks per quarter and respond to incidents with urgency and ownership.

Key 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
Experience:DatacenterInfrastructureCloud
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingOwnershipOn-callDocumentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GolangGRPCPostgreSQLSyscallsCgroups

Company Brief

Railway
Provides a developer-focused, zero-ops cloud platform to deploy, run and manage applications and databases with minimal configuration; targets engineers and AI-native teams seeking faster, simpler infrastructure.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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