Railway
Senior Infra Engineer: Observability
Global · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
About the job
Build Railway’s observability infrastructure, including high-volume telemetry ingestion, real-time alerting and streaming APIs, and scalable backend services.
What you'll do
- Build ingestion pipelines for 1M+ RPS telemetry and fault-tolerant, real-time alerting engines.
- Develop observability APIs and Golang/Rust gRPC services for logs, metrics, and product integrations.
- Define immutable infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and document engineering requirements and monitoring.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and building fault-tolerant, resilient, scalable services.
- Ability to implement solutions, create monitors for error boundaries, and document requirements.
- Strong communication skills and ability to prioritize amid startup ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Interest in VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, and other observability-stack systems.
Tools
Golang, Rust, gRPC, Terraform, Ansible, TypeScript, GraphQL, VictoriaMetrics
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