Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
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Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage. We believe that people should be given powerful tools so that they can spend less time setting up to do and more time doing.
Building the infrastructure which powers the Railway engine is the most core problem at Railway. As an infrastructure engineer working on stoarge you will be directly responsible for designing software and hardware to back performant high reliability block storage and object storage systems backing millions of applications. The solutions you build will be instrumental in not only scaling internal operations but scaling the company to infinity and beyond!
But the world would be a better place if more engineers like me hated technology. The stuff I design if Im successful nobody will ever notice. Things will just work and will be self-managing
- Radia Perlman
Curious Here are 3 blog posts that dive into exciting projects this team has worked on: 1 2 3
Want to learn about our work culture Here is a three-part blog series that will help you see the unique ways our team works (Parts 1 2 3 and 4).
About The Role
For this role you will:
Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters from hardware design to driving network requirements to configuring tuning and operating clusters and their clients
Create efficient generalizable APIs using systems/kernel features to provide safe as-fast-as-possible live-migrations of stateful workload between hosts
Design and build API and Orchestration services to tie storage primitives to higher level primitives using Go gRPC ScyllaDB and Temporal
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea to defined tasks to implementation to monitoring its success
Design build a suite of storage primitives that can be used by customer applications internal services and enable higher level platform features such as streaming image pulls or movable build caches
About You
Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant resilient and scalable services
Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles
Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4 ZFS BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS bcachefs)
A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems startups we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude or 12-18mo.
The tact to implement your solution creator monitors for its error boundaries and document any requirements for when youre not around
A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
A sense of grit to dive into a problem implement a solution scale that solution and replace it when needed
A great set of communication skills for getting your point across solution implemented and beyond
We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds
Things to know
For better or worse were a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.
Were distributed ALL across the globe and thats 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 youll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone elses.
Were 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 were 21 serving hundreds of thousands of users. Theres 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.
Benefits and perks
At Railway we provide best in class benefits. Great salary full health benefits including dependents strong equity grants equipment stipend and much more. For more details check back on the main careers page.
Beyond compensation there are a few things that we believe that make working at Railway truly unique:
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 its at work or outside of work.
Ownership: Were a company with a high ownership high autonomy culture. We hope that youll 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: Were a startup thats well funded with cool problems which lets us implement novel solutions! We abhor busywork and think whether its community engineering operations etc theres 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 its at Railway or outside well make sure you land there.
How we hire
No tricks. No surprises. Heres the entire process:
Talk with us about the role
This is completely open ended and were just trying to see who you are what you want to do and where you wanna go.
Work on a small project to discuss in the interview
Asynchronously implement the following:
Pre-interview: Design a Storage Engine to power something like Railways Volume
You can and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.
Review your solution with the Team
Youll sit down with someone on the team and go over the above. Well poke into your solution as well as get you acquainted with two more members of the team.
Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.
Interview Structure (60 Minutes):
Prework (submitted before your interview): Complete your solution
0-5m: introduction
5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution
50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc
Meet the Team
Youll meet the Team which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company.
Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.
Offer and Details Chat with CEO
Finally we will go over the process the role and hammer out the details about your position onboarding and all the deets.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
