Senior Infra Engineer: Observability

Job description

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.

Many infrastructure platforms simply focus on how you deploy your singular application, and now how these applications function in concert. Questions like “How do you build systems for zero downtime deployment”, “How do you do service-to-service communications”, etc are usually left up to the engineers to define.

At Railway, our goal is to be an all encompassing solution to all these problems. As such, we take special care as we define our networking infrastructure.

Note: Networking falls under the platform engineering umbrella. If you’re specialized, we’d love to chat! That said, we’d also like it noted you’re probably going to do a lot of non-networking + platform things

“But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and will be self-managing”

• Radia Perlman

ABOUT THE ROLE

For this role, you will:

1. Build ingestion pipelines to consume 1M+ RPS streams of logs, metrics, and other telemetry

2. Build scalable, fault tolerant alerting engines for notifying users, in real-time, of threshold breaches

3. Craft rich backend observability APIs, working with product to build amazing experiences for instantly grokking their application

4. Provide APIs to access realtime log/metrics streams to be consumed by the Dashboard and Product Teams

5. Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch capable of supporting tens of thousands of users, and the million+ to come.

6. Define infrastructure that can be torn down, failed over, and reconstituted from scratch using principle of immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.

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