Senior Observability Engineer: Scale Telemetry & Resilience

Railway; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health benefits including dependents

Strong equity grants

Equipment stipend

Autonomy with few meetings

Opportunity for creative solutions

Focus on growth and talent development

Job summary

Railway is seeking a Software Engineer to build scalable services and manage complex distributed systems. This high-impact role offers an environment rich in autonomy and ownership, where engineers can thrive while addressing novel problems. The position emphasizes collaboration, communication skills, and resilience in a startup atmosphere. Railway provides competitive salaries, health benefits for dependents, strong equity grants, and a unique culture that fosters growth and creativity.

Qualifications

• Experience in building resilient and scalable distributed systems.
• Familiarity with observability stacks including VictoriaMetrics and ClickHouse.
• Ability to document engineering requirements and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Build ingestion pipelines for high-volume logs and metrics.
• Create scalable alerting engines for real-time notifications.
• Define infrastructure for immutable deployments.
• Interface APIs for internal and external consumption.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Scalable services

Communication skills

Prioritization in ambiguity

Problem-solving

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Golang

Rust

TypeScript

GraphQL

Job description

Railway is seeking a Software Engineer to build scalable services and manage complex distributed systems. This high-impact role offers an environment rich in autonomy and ownership, where engineers can thrive while addressing novel problems. The position emphasizes collaboration, communication skills, and resilience in a startup atmosphere. Railway provides competitive salaries, health benefits for dependents, strong equity grants, and a unique culture that fosters growth and creativity.