Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

The role

You will build and maintain the host provisioning stack and evolve a homegrown orchestration engine. You will also optimize bin packing algorithms and build internal observability, alerting, and CI pipelines.

What you will do

• Build and maintain host provisioning stack using PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents
• Evolve homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs
• Optimize bin packing algorithm efficiency
• Own internal tooling for interacting with the fleet
• Build internal observability and alerting
• Design and maintain CI pipelines for infrastructure code
• Define infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Build Golang/Rust GRPC services
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents

Required qualifications

• Strong understanding of distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning
• Hands-on experience with configuration management
• Comfort building and operating internal tools
• Ability to implement solutions with monitors and documentation
• Sense of direction and prioritization in an early stage startup
• Sense of grit to implement, scale, and replace solutions
• Great communication skills

Benefits

• Great salary
• Full health benefits including dependents
• Strong equity grants
• Equipment stipend

Before you apply

• Work on a small project to discuss in the interview

About the company

Railway is a startup with a small team of 21 people serving hundreds of thousands of users. Their mission is to make software engineers higher leverage through powerful tools.