Railway
Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
Global · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 1, 2025
About the job
Lead development and operation of Railway’s block-storage systems for reliable, high-performance stateful workloads across cloud and bare-metal environments.
What you'll do
- Develop and operate block-storage systems; participate in on-call rotations.
- Specify storage server hardware and build capacity-planning systems.
- Design orchestration interfaces for online backups and zero-downtime workload migration, and guide long-term platform architecture.
What they ask for
- Meet one or more of the listed qualifications, including distributed-storage experience, systems engineering, storage performance expertise, critical distributed systems, Linux I/O performance, or Rust systems programming.
- Comfort owning problems independently in a small company.
- Communicate solutions effectively and document them.
Nice to have
- Experience in adjacent infrastructure such as hypervisor I/O, kernel development, distributed systems, or persistent memory.
Tools
Rust, Linux, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk
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