Senior Networking & Platform Engineer — Edge & eBPF

Railway; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Equipment stipend

Health benefits

Job summary

Railway is seeking a high-impact network platform engineer to own edge routing and private meshing across the platform. You will build and operate a homegrown eBPF L4 proxy, design a scalable private network using eBPF/WireGuard, and contribute to a world-class, globally distributed network architecture.

You should have hands-on experience with overlay networks (VXLAN, WireGuard), eBPF code, Linux networking at scale, and familiarity with BGP.

Qualifications

• Experience with overlay networking technologies (VXLAN, WireGuard, etc).
• Experience writing eBPF code to mux packets around a network.
• Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting production-grade datacenter networks.
• Familiarity with Linux networking stack and tuning for large scale.
• Knowledge of latency optimization and network reliability.

Responsibilities

• Setup, maintain, and evolve our edge routing networking layer (Homegrown eBPF L4 proxy).
• Build an internal private network for dynamically meshing services on the platform (eBPF/WireGuard).
• Manage baremetal rack eBGP broadcasting for a fault tolerant, global anycast network.
• Develop advanced DDoS mitigation strategies and secure the network.
• Build Golang GRPC services to scale for millions of users and beyond.
• Define infrastructure that can be torn down and reconstituted with immutable principles.
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents from idea to implementation and monitoring.
• Interface with TypeScript and GraphQL to expose microservice APIs.

Skills

Overlay networking

eBPF programming

Linux networking at scale

BGP / Internet routing

Network troubleshooting

Job description

Railway is seeking a high-impact network platform engineer to own edge routing and private meshing across the platform. You will build and operate a homegrown eBPF L4 proxy, design a scalable private network using eBPF/WireGuard, and contribute to a world-class, globally distributed network architecture.

You should have hands-on experience with overlay networks (VXLAN, WireGuard), eBPF code, Linux networking at scale, and familiarity with BGP.