# Senior Platform Engineer: Storage at Railway

- Company: Railway
- What the company does: Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://railway.app/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Global
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2025-08-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/railway/25d8444a-47dc-4084-ae56-29a0f0b19b74
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/railway-senior-platform-engineer-storage/

## About the role

This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.

## What they're looking for

- You've built and operated distributed storage systems and have a strong grasp of first-principles
- You have strong systems engineering experience in one or more of: filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
- You have a deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems
- You have experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical
- You have a strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux
- You have strong foundation in systems programming with Rust

Tags: Platform