Remote Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Platform & AI

BNSF; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Healthcare options

HSA

Family benefits

Travel discounts

Annual bonus

Job summary

BNSF Railway is seeking a Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Sr/Staff Software Engineer to drive building scalable platform services and AI-enabled features for our freight operations. You will own architecture across distributed systems, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

This remote role offers strong compensation, a culture of inclusion, and opportunities to shape the future of rail technology while traveling up to 20% as needed.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US.
• Minimum 6 years of software development or related experience.
• Experience with distributed systems and technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices.
• Interest in open-source platform and infrastructure technologies.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with secure coding practices and platform security principles.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for large-scale, complex systems.
• Develop APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for services.
• Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance.
• Design and operate scalable systems across data centers, edge devices, and the cloud.
• Mentor and grow other engineers, including other senior engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

CI/CD

DevOps

Tech lead

Open-source

Secure coding

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

API gateways

SQL/NoSQL/Graph

Caching systems

Serverless

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

BNSF Railway is seeking a Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Sr/Staff Software Engineer to drive building scalable platform services and AI-enabled features for our freight operations. You will own architecture across distributed systems, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

This remote role offers strong compensation, a culture of inclusion, and opportunities to shape the future of rail technology while traveling up to 20% as needed.