Senior Storage Platform Engineer: Scale Distributed Storage

Railway

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Full health benefits including dependents
Strong equity grants
Equipment stipend
High autonomy culture
Growth opportunities

Job summary

Railway is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and implement robust storage systems for high reliability. You'll be responsible for evolving production Ceph clusters and creating APIs for live migrations, all while collaborating within a unique startup culture that values autonomy and ownership.

Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of distributed systems and a passion for tackling novel problems. We offer a remote-first work culture with exceptional benefits, including full health coverage and equity grants.

Qualifications

  • Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems.
  • Understanding of network storage cluster design.
  • Solid intuition about solution longevity in startups.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity in an early-stage startup.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters.
  • Create efficient APIs for live-migration of stateful workloads.
  • Build orchestration services tying storage to higher-level primitives.
  • Document Engineering Requirements for solutions.
  • Design storage primitives for customer applications.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture
Production experience with block device systems
Current gen filesystems knowledge
Documentation and monitoring
Strong communication skills

Job description

Railway is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and implement robust storage systems for high reliability. You'll be responsible for evolving production Ceph clusters and creating APIs for live migrations, all while collaborating within a unique startup culture that values autonomy and ownership.

Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of distributed systems and a passion for tackling novel problems. We offer a remote-first work culture with exceptional benefits, including full health coverage and equity grants.

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