Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

Job description

Our core mission at Railway is to let developers create, ship and operate software with minimal friction. Fundamental to that mission is an array of rock-solid and composable primitives, principal among these - storage.

As a Storage Engineer you will build, evolve and operate the systems that allow Railway to host stateful workloads. Railway operates across multiple colocation datacenters and large fleets of cloud VMs. This demands we build high-availability primitives that “work anywhere” and that can migrate between different environments with minimal (ideally zero) downtime. Moving storage is the hardest challenge in this task, and it has required us to invest in building custom systems from first-principles.

You will principally be working on our new log structured block-storage system that is designed for performance, high-density and high-availability across cloud and baremetal environments.

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).

Curious? Here are 3 blog posts that dive into exciting projects this team has worked on: 1, 2, 3

About The Role

For this role, you will:

• 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

This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.

About You

You should meet one or more of the following requirements:

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