Railway
Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
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Publicada1 de ago. de 2025
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Sinal de senioridadeSenior
Modelo de trabalhoRemoto
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Estados Unidos
Resumo da vaga
Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
Requisitos e responsabilidades
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About The Role
- 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 to support coordinated workflows such as on-line backups and zero-downtime/live workload migration
- Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring its success
- Set the longer-term architectural direction to scale the platform
About You
- You've built and operated distributed storage systems and have a strong grasp of first-principles.
- You have strong systems engineering experience in one or more of: filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
- You have a deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems.
- You have experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical.
- You have a strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux.
- You have strong foundation in systems programming with Rust.
- You're comfortable owning a problem alone at a small company.
- You have a solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months.
- You have the grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed.
- You communicate well enough to get your point across, your solution implemented, and documented for when you're not around.
About You
- We're distributed ALL across the globe, and that's only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening.
- We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but you'll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone else's.
- We're a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing we're 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. There's a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.
- We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.
About You
- Autonomy: We have very few meetings. Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board. We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
- Ownership: We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture. We hope that you'll come in, help us, and over the course of many years do the best work of your life. When we bring you onboard, we expect you to change the company.
- Novel problems/solutions: We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions! We abhor “busywork” and think, whether it's community, engineering, operations, etc there's always opportunity for creative and high leverage solutions.
- Growth: We want you to grow with us, but we know that talent is loaned, so when you figure out what area you want to grow in next, whether it's at Railway or outside, we'll make sure you land there.
Details
- This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.
- Asynchronously implement the following:
- Pre-interview: Design a Storage Engine to power something like Railway's Volume
- You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.
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