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RailwayRailwayUnited States

Infrastructure Engineer

Builds low-level infrastructure software from first principles to power a cloud platform, focusing on OS primitives, distributed systems, and scalable gRPC services in Golang/Rust for high developer leverage.

Salary not listed
RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build system-level software from first principles, focusing on efficiency with CPU, memory, network, and kernel primitives.
  • Develop fault-tolerant, resilient, and scalable Golang/Rust gRPC services to expose capabilities.
  • Design distributed systems using tools like RAFT or Postgres, balancing complexity and simplicity.
  • Implement solutions with monitoring, documentation, and ownership for error boundaries.
  • Handle on-call duties occasionally.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems.
  • Intuition for solution longevity and scalability (2-3 orders of magnitude, 12-18 months).
  • Prioritization skills in ambiguous startup environments.
  • Grit to dive into problems, implement, scale, and replace solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

  • Curiosity about OS-level primitives.
  • Experience building from scratch rather than standard Kubernetes solutions.

Skills

GoRustgRPCDistributed SystemsLinux KernelPostgresRaftKubernetesContainer OrchestrationSystem Programming

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