BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads, and they are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer II to support the movement of essential products and materials. The role involves developing and deploying software for core freight movement operations, focusing on building and operating large scale distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
- Write production-quality code for well-defined tasks
- Follow team coding standards and processes
- Participate in design reviews to learn best practices
- Write and maintain unit/integration tests
- Debug and fix straightforward issues
- Seek feedback proactively and apply it to improve
- Develop APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for services
- Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance
- Design and operate scalable systems across data centers, edge devices, and the cloud
- Work with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations
- Innovate in distributed computing and drive industry transformation
- Build solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems
- Solve broad challenges by coding effective solutions in an agile environment
Requirements:
- Authorized to work in the US
- Minimum 3 years of software development or related experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with developing, testing and deploying high quality software in production systems
- Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience with secure coding practices
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders
- Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, or related field
- Able to work now and in the future without BNSF's assistance (whether monetary, through sponsorship, or otherwise) in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization (including H-1B, STEM OPT/CPT, or TN nonimmigrant status)
- Engineering experience with a public PaaS or cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Interest in sustainable infrastructure and cost/resource awareness
- Experience with single-pane-of-glass management platforms or control planes for distributed systems
- Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot
- Prior experience developing and delivering highly reliable distributed systems in production environment