Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration
Core
Build and maintain the host provisioning stack and orchestration engine to manage bare metal, containers, and VMs for Railway's platform.
Role type
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Baremetal Orchestration)
Builds
Host provisioning stack (PXE boot, Ansible, burn-in agents), orchestration engine, bin packing algorithms, internal tooling, observability/alerting, CI pipelines, and Golang/Rust GRPC services.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Bare Metal Orchestration / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, bare metal provisioning, configuration management, bin packing algorithms, internal tooling development, observability design, CI/CD pipeline design, Terraform, Ansible, Golang, Rust, GRPC, Engineering Requirement Documentation
Preferred skills
fault tolerance, resilience, scalability, immutable infrastructure patterns, startup agility, high ownership, grit
Technologies
Terraform, Ansible, Golang, Rust, GRPC, PXE, Docker/Kubernetes (implied by containers/VMs context), bin packing algorithms
Responsibilities
Build and maintain host provisioning stack (PXE boot, Ansible, burn-in agents); Evolve homegrown orchestration engine for clusters, containers, and VMs; Optimize bin packing algorithm for efficiency and cost; Own internal tooling for engineers; Build observability and alerting; Design and maintain CI pipelines; Define immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible; Build Golang/Rust GRPC services; Write Engineering Requirement Documents.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
