Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
Offer summary
Qualifications:
Experience in architecting and implementing distributed systems., Production experience with distributed block device systems like Ceph., Understanding of current gen filesystems such as Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS., Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously in a startup environment..Key responsibilities:
- Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters, including hardware and network configuration.
- Create APIs using systems/kernel features for live-migration of stateful workloads.
- Develop API and orchestration services using Go, gRPC, ScyllaDB, and Temporal.
- Write engineering requirement documents from conception to monitoring.
Job description
Job description
Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage. We believe that people should be given powerful tools so that they can spend less time setting up to do, and more time doing.
Building the infrastructure which powers the Railway engine is the most core problem at Railway. As an infrastructure engineer working on stoarge, you will be directly responsible for designing software and hardware to back performant, high reliability block storage and object storage systems backing millions of applications. The solutions you build will be instrumental in not only scaling internal operations, but scaling the company to infinity and beyond!
“But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if Im successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and will be selfmanaging”
Radia Perlman
Curious? Here are 3 blog posts that dive into exciting projects this team has worked on: 1, 2, 3
Want to learn about our work culture? Here is a threepart blog series that will help you see the unique ways our team works (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).
About The RoleFor this role, you will:
Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters, from hardware design, to driving network requirements to configuring, tuning and operating clusters and their clients
Create efficient, generalizable APIs using systemskernel features to provide safe, asfastaspossible livemigrations of stateful workload between hosts
Design and build API and Orchestration services to tie storage primitives to higher level primitives using Go, gRPC, ScyllaDB and Temporal
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring it’s success
Design build a suite of storage primitives that can be used by customer applications, internal services and enable higher level platform features such as streaming image pulls or movable build caches
About You
Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles
Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs)
A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 23 orders of magnitude, or 1218mo.
The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond
We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds
Things to know
For better or worse, were a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.
Were distributed ALL across the globe, and thats only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening.
We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but youll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone elses.
Were a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing were 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. Theres a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.
We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.
Benefits and perks
At Railway, we provide best in class benefits. Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more. For more details, check back on the main careers page.
For this role, you will:
Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters, from hardware design, to driving network requirements to configuring, tuning and operating clusters and their clients
Create efficient, generalizable APIs using systemskernel features to provide safe, asfastaspossible livemigrations of stateful workload between hosts
Design and build API and Orchestration services to tie storage primitives to higher level primitives using Go, gRPC, ScyllaDB and Temporal
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring it’s success
Design build a suite of storage primitives that can be used by customer applications, internal services and enable higher level platform features such as streaming image pulls or movable build caches
Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles
Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs)
A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 23 orders of magnitude, or 1218mo.
The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond
Were distributed ALL across the globe, and thats only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening.
We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but youll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone elses.
Were a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing were 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. Theres a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.
We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.
Benefits and perks
At Railway, we provide best in class benefits. Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more. For more details, check back on the main careers page.
We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds
Things to know
For better or worse, were a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.
About You
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Resilience
- Prioritization
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Problem Solving
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