Railway jobs

Senior Product Engineer role at Railway focused on architecting and scaling high-throughput backend systems including billing, fraud detection, and data pipelines. Key responsibilities span metering and payment processing, fraud/abuse detection, scaling Postgres and Node.js services, and building TypeScript/GraphQL APIs. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, on-call responsibilities, and contributions to open-source infrastructure tooling; requires strong systems design and concurrency expertise with willingness to learn Rust.

Railway is hiring a Platform Engineer to build observability infrastructure for their deployment platform. You'll own the design and implementation of ingestion pipelines handling 1M+ RPS of logs and metrics, real-time alerting engines, backend observability APIs, and Golang/Rust microservices, while defining immutable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible. You need a strong grasp of distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability; experience with observability stacks (VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse) is a plus, along with the judgment to scope solutions for startup timescales and document their failure modes. Railway is a 21-person startup serving hundreds of thousands of users across a fully distributed team, offering competitive salary, strong equity, and a high-autonomy culture with minimal meetings and a Monday/Friday cadence. The role is genuinely high-impact with direct ownership over company trajectory, and the hiring process is transparent and collaborative—including an asynchronous design exercise and structured interviews focused on problem-solving and team fit rather than gotchas.