Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration
RailwayJob Description
📋 Description Build and maintain host provisioning: PXE boot, Ansible, burn-in agents. Evolve orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, VM s. Optimize bin packing to maximize utilization and minimize costs. Own internal tooling for Railway engineers to interact with fleet. Build observability and alerting to catch fleet problems early. Design and maintain CI pipelines for shipping infrastructure code. 🎯 Requirements Strong distributed systems expertise; fault-tolerant, scalable services. Hands-on bare metal provisioning and configuration management. Experience building internal tools; emphasize developer experience. Ability to estimate solution longevity (12-18 months) in startups. Monitors and documentation requirements for your solutions. Strong prioritization amid startup ambiguity. Grit to implement, scale, and replace solutions when needed. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 🎁 Benefits Autonomy: few meetings; time sacred. Ownership culture with high autonomy. Novel problems and high-leverage solutions. Growth opportunities and career trajectory. Best-in-class benefits; health, equity, equipment stipend.