Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

The role

You will lead the development of block storage systems and work on a new log structured block-storage system. You will also support storage system operations, drive hardware specification, and design interfaces for orchestration services.

What you will do

• Lead the development of Railway's block storage systems
• Support the operation of storage systems and participate in on-call rotations
• Drive the specification of storage server hardware
• Build systems to support capacity planning
• Design and build interfaces with orchestration services
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents
• Set the longer-term architectural direction to scale the platform

Required qualifications

• Built and operated distributed storage systems
• Strong systems engineering experience in filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
• Deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems
• Experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical
• Strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux
• Strong foundation in systems programming with Rust
• Comfortable owning a problem alone at a small company
• Solid intuition about how long solutions will last
• Grit to dive into a problem, implement, scale, and replace solutions
• Communicate well enough to get solutions implemented and documented

Nice to have

• Background in adjacent infrastructure (hypervisor I/O, kernel development, distributed systems, persistent memory)

Benefits

• Great salary
• Full health benefits including dependents
• Strong equity grants
• Equipment stipend
• Autonomy with very few meetings
• High ownership and autonomy culture
• Opportunity to work on novel problems and solutions
• Growth opportunities

Before you apply

• Work on a small project to discuss in the interview
• Asynchronously implement a design for a Storage Engine to power something like Railway's Volume

About the company

Railway is a startup whose mission is to let developers create, ship and operate software with minimal friction. The team is small, distributed globally, and focuses on building high-availability primitives.