Senior Infra Engineer: Baremetal Orchestration

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. Many infrastructure platforms simply focus on how you deploy your singular application, and now how these applications function in concert. Questions like “How do you build systems for zero downtime deployment”, “How do you do service-to-service communications”, etc are usually left up to the engineers to define. At Railway, our goal is to be an all encompassing solution to all these problems. As such, we take special care as we define our networking infrastructure. “But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and will be self-managing” - Radia Perlman About the role For this role, you will: - Build and maintain our host provisioning stack: PXE boot, Ansible, and burn-in agents that bring new bare metal online quickly and confidently - Continue to evolve our homegrown orchestration engine to manage clusters, containers, and VMs through a single lens - Optimize the efficiency of our bin packing algorithm to maximize utilization/performance and minimize costs - Own the internal tooling that Railway engineers use to interact with our fleet...