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RailwayRailwaySan Francisco, CA

Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

Builds and maintains bare metal provisioning, orchestration engine, and internal tools for Railway's infrastructure platform. Optimizes fleet efficiency and develops resilient services using Golang/Rust, Ansible, and Terraform for distributed systems.

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RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain host provisioning stack: PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents for bare metal.
  • Evolve homegrown orchestration engine for clusters, containers, and VMs.
  • Optimize bin packing algorithm for utilization, performance, and cost minimization.
  • Own internal tooling for Railway engineers interacting with the fleet.
  • Build internal observability and alerting for fleet issues.
  • Design and maintain CI pipelines for infrastructure code.
  • Define immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Build Golang/Rust gRPC services for millions of users.
  • Write Engineering Requirement Documents from idea to implementation.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, resilience, and scalability.
  • Hands-on experience with bare metal provisioning, configuration management, and hardware production readiness.
  • Comfort building and operating internal tools with focus on developer experience.
  • Intuition for solution longevity (12-18 months in startups).
  • Tact for implementation, monitoring error boundaries, and documentation.
  • Strong prioritization in ambiguity, grit to scale and replace solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with startups and high ownership culture.

Skills

AnsibleTerraformPxegRPCGoRustKubernetesDistributed SystemsCI/CDObservability

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