BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads transporting the nation’s freight across 28 western states and 3 Canadian provinces. They are seeking a Sr/Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to develop and operate cloud-native systems and services, while collaborating with teams to enhance platform usability and scalability.
Responsibilities:
- This is a full stack infrastructure engineering role, involving backend services, APIs, and developer-facing services for our physical/digital infrastructure and platforms
- Develop and operate cloud-native systems and services using GitOps workflows
- Build and operate IaaS (compute, storage, and networking), PaaS (DBs, messages, API, and serverless), identity/access, observability/alerting/remediation, and developer services
- Collaborate with internal application teams to improve platform usability and feedback
- Help design and run systems that scale across our data centers, edge devices, and public cloud environments powering always on services
Requirements:
- Authorized to work in the US
- 6+ years of proficiency with modern programming languages used in infrastructure (e.g. Go, Python, and Java)
- 5+ years of experience with IaaS, PaaS, Service Mesh, block/object storage, and Linux
- 3+ years experience with streaming data services and SQL/NoSQL/Graph DBs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices
- Interest in open-source infrastructure and developer platforms
- Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience with secure coding practices and infrastructure security principles
- Experience with secrets management and identity and access control
- Proven ability to independently deliver features that improve developer workflows or platform capabilities
- Experience collaborating across teams and mentoring junior engineers
- Familiarity with designing scalable systems and contributing to architectural decisions
- 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 a related field
- Engineering experience with a public IaaS company (AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, CoreWeave,etc.)
- Experience running infrastructure platforms in production such as OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, DBaaS, service mesh, and API gateways
- Github commits to open-source infrastructure and developer platforms projects
- Experience with edge systems and hybrid environments
- Experience with developer tooling as a builder and/or user
- Proficiency with container-based development
- Interest in sustainable infrastructure and cost/resource awareness
- Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot
- 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)