Senior Platform Engineer: Storage
Railway · Remote · Global ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Platform Engineer
- Fully remote worldwide
- Rust + Linux systems
- High autonomy culture
- Equity + health benefits
You will lead the development of Railway's block storage systems, enabling developers to run stateful applications with minimal friction. The team builds custom, high-performance storage primitives that support zero-downtime migration between colocation datacenters and cloud VMs.
This position requires strong systems engineering skills to handle complex I/O paths and distributed consistency challenges. You will define hardware specifications, drive capacity planning, and set the long-term architectural direction for the platform.
What you'll do
- Lead development of block storage systems for stateful workloads
- Support system operations and participate in on-call rotations
- Define specifications for storage server hardware
- Build tools to support capacity planning efforts
- Design interfaces for orchestration services and live migrations
- Write engineering requirement documents from idea to implementation
- Set long-term architectural direction for platform scaling
What you'll need
- Experience building and operating distributed storage systems
- Strong systems engineering background in filesystems or kernel I/O
- Deep understanding of algorithms for reliable storage performance
- Experience with large distributed systems requiring consistency
- Strong background in Linux I/O layer performance engineering
- Solid foundation in systems programming with Rust
- Ability to own problems independently in a small team setting
- Strong communication skills for documentation and collaboration
Nice to have
- Background in hypervisor I/O or kernel development
- Experience with persistent memory technologies
- Familiarity with SPDK, io_uring, or vhost-user-blk
Stack
- Rust
- Linux
- SPDK
- io_uring
- vhost-user-blk
- ublk
How you'll work
- Fully remote team distributed globally
- Flexible hours with emphasis on boundary management
- Minimal meetings: only Monday and Friday syncs
- Participation in on-call rotation required
What you get
- Competitive salary and strong equity grants
- Full health benefits including coverage for dependents
- Equipment stipend for home office setup
- High autonomy with very few internal meetings
- Support for professional growth and career transitions
Hiring process
- Initial open-ended conversation about role and goals
- Asynchronous design project for a storage engine
- Technical review of solution with team members
- Team fit interview with four cross-functional colleagues
- Final offer details and onboarding discussion with CEO