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Senior Product Engineer, Scalability
Railway · Global · Posted 147 days ago
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. Railway now powers workloads for millions of builders, and the systems underneath — usage metering, billing and payments, fraud and abuse protection, background workers, and the data pipelines that feed them all — have to scale every week.
You'll be the person who architects that stack: making it fast, correct, and trustworthy at a volume that keeps growing. If you're looking to scale the backbone of an operating system for builders, we'd love to talk with you!
Want to learn about our work culture? Here is a multi-part blog series that will help you see the unique ways our team works (Parts 1 https://blog.railway.app/p/how-we-work, 2 https://blog.railway.app/p/how-we-work-volume-ii, 3 https://blog.railway.app/p/how-we-work-volume-iii, and 4 https://blog.railway.com/p/how-we-work-volume-iv).
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a backend-leaning role focused on scaling systems. Billing and fraud will be a focus, but your remit spans every high-throughput system at Railway — workers, queues, event pipelines, and the databases underneath them. You'll own your work end-to-end, including when a feature reaches the UI.
For this role, you will:
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