Senior Infra Engineer – Baremetal Orchestration

About the role

Railway is building an all‑encompassing platform to simplify infrastructure for engineers. As a Senior Infra Engineer you will own the internal tooling and orchestration that powers Railway’s fleet of bare‑metal, container, and VM workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain the host provisioning stack (PXE boot, Ansible, burn‑in agents) to bring new bare‑metal servers online quickly.
• Evolve the home‑grown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers and VMs through a single interface.
• Optimize bin‑packing algorithms for cost‑effective utilization.
• Develop internal observability, alerting, and CI pipelines for infrastructure code.
• Design immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, and build Golang/Rust gRPC services at scale.

Required profile

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and experience operating fault‑tolerant, scalable services.
• Hands‑on experience with bare‑metal provisioning, configuration management, and production‑ready hardware.
• Ability to create monitoring, documentation, and to work autonomously in an early‑stage startup.
• Excellent communication skills and a grit‑driven approach to solving ambiguous problems.

Required skills

• PXE boot
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Golang
• Rust
• gRPC
• CI pipeline design

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Full health benefits including dependents
• Equipment stipend
• High autonomy with minimal meetings
• Opportunities to work on novel, high‑impact problems