Company: Railway
Location: Remote (Global)
About the Company
Railway’s mission is to make software engineers significantly more productive by giving them powerful tools that reduce setup time and increase time spent building.
The company focuses on simplifying build and deployment workflows, believing that accessible tooling for infrastructure is one of the greatest productivity unlocks of this generation. A key challenge Railway is tackling is how developers interact with powerful computing paradigms through intuitive, well-designed interfaces.
Railway is building what it describes as an “operating system for builders.”
Role Overview
Railway is hiring a Product Engineer / Full-Stack Engineer to work across the stack, building end-to-end product experiences that combine thoughtful user interfaces with complex backend workflows.
This role has high ownership and impact, directly influencing product direction, engineering culture, and the company’s long-term trajectory.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, the engineer will:
- Build features end-to-end, from dashboard UI to backend workflows orchestrated with Temporal
- Design and implement intuitive interfaces in collaboration with the design team
- Develop TypeScript and GraphQL APIs with strong data modeling guarantees for internal and external consumers
- Write Engineering Requirement Documents (ERDs) to take ideas from concept through implementation and measurement
- Contribute to, or learn Rust in order to contribute to, open-source projects such as Railway’s CLI and Nixpacks
- Participate in on-call rotations as needed
Example Projects
Engineers in this role have previously worked on:
- Rebuilding logging infrastructure to support 1B+ logs per day, including ClickHouse configuration and a new observability UI
- Designing “Git for infrastructure,” rethinking how projects evolve over time
- Building Nixpacks, a tool for converting user code into deployable images
- Creating visual interfaces to represent infrastructure on a 2D canvas
- Supporting cross-region deployment migration with persistent volumes using Temporal
- Developing a marketplace for reusable infrastructure components
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate brings:
- Ability to independently lead, design, and implement full product experiences
- Strong frontend architecture skills for building data-rich, interactive systems
- Experience managing complex asynchronous backend workflows (e.g., build/deploy pipelines)
- Interest in participating in the full product lifecycle, from research and planning through monitoring and iteration
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in asynchronous environments
Railway encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Working Environment
- Fully distributed, global team
- Early-stage startup environment with high ownership and ambiguity
- Small team (approximately 21 people at time of posting) serving hundreds of thousands of users
- Flexible working hours with attention to time zone overlap
- Strong emphasis on accountability and ownership of decisions and outcomes
Benefits & Perks
Railway offers a competitive benefits package, including:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health benefits (including dependents)
- Equity grants
- Equipment stipend
- Additional benefits detailed on the company’s careers page
Additional aspects of working at Railway include:
- Autonomy: Minimal meetings and strong respect for focused work time
- Ownership: Engineers are expected to influence and change the company
- Challenging problems: Emphasis on novel, high-leverage technical solutions
- Growth: Support for long-term career development, whether within or beyond Railway
Hiring Process
The hiring process is fully transparent and includes:
- Introductory conversation – Open discussion about background, interests, and goals
- Take-home project – Build and deploy a small application using Railway’s GraphQL API with both UI and backend components
- Technical review – Code walkthrough and discussion with team members
- Team interviews – Conversations with cross-functional team members
- CEO discussion – One-on-one conversation with the Founder & CEO
- Offer discussion – Final details, onboarding, and next steps
Candidates are encouraged to ask questions throughout the process.
Final Note
The interview process is designed to be mutual. Candidates are encouraged to ask thoughtful and challenging questions to ensure alignment on expectations, culture, and long-term goals.