Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Observability

Responsibilities

• Build ingestion pipelines to consume 1M+ RPS streams of logs, metrics, and other telemetry
• Build scalable, fault tolerant alerting engines for real-time threshold breaches
• Craft rich backend observability APIs to improve user application visibility
• Provide APIs for real-time log and metrics streams for Dashboard and Product teams
• Build Golang/Rust GRPC services from scratch to support massive user growth
• Define immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents from idea to implementation and monitoring
• Interface with TypeScript and GraphQL edge to expose microservice APIs

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed systems
• Experience building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
• Interest in VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, and observability stacks
• Ability to implement, monitor, and document solutions
• Strong prioritization skills in an early-stage startup environment
• Excellent communication skills

About the Company

Railway's mission is to make software engineers higher leverage by providing powerful tools that automate infrastructure setup. We are a small, high-ownership, distributed team of 21 people serving hundreds of thousands of users.