# Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

**Company:** [Railway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/railway)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** Ansible, Terraform, Pxe, gRPC, Go, Rust, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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