Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of Railway's block storage systems
• Support the operation of storage systems and participate in on-call rotations
• Drive the specification of storage server hardware
• Build systems to support capacity planning
• Design and build interfaces with orchestration services for coordinated workflows like online backups and live workload migration
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents from idea to implementation and monitoring
• Set long-term architectural direction to scale the platform

Requirements

• Experience building and operating distributed storage systems
• Strong systems engineering experience in filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk, or virtualization
• Deep understanding of algorithms for fast, performant, and reliable storage systems
• Experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability are critical
• Strong background in performance engineering at the Linux I/O layer
• Strong foundation in systems programming with Rust
• Ability to own problems independently in a small company environment
• Strong communication skills for documentation and implementation

About the Company

Railway's mission is to let developers create, ship, and operate software with minimal friction through rock-solid, composable primitives, primarily focused on storage.