Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Sr/Staff Software Engineer Job Details | BNSF

BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads transporting the nation’s freight across western states. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to drive innovative projects that enhance railroad logistics and develop scalable software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics to effectively serve our customers to move freight on time
• Drive the technical and architectural vision for a core team that develops software for our core freight movement operations, as well as all the aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of our product
• 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 designing and coding effective solutions in an agile environment
• Own architecture for large-scale, complex systems
• Make critical technical decisions balancing business needs and engineering trade-offs
• Drive cross-team alignment on technical solutions
• Establish and maintain coding and design best practices
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more technical domains
• Mentor and grow other engineers, including other senior engineers
• Anticipate technical risks and design systems to mitigate them
• Demonstrate operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Requirements:

• Authorized to work in the US
• Minimum 6 years of software development or related experience
• 6+ years of programming experience with at least one modern software programming language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.)
• Experience with distributed systems and use of technologies such as messaging frameworks (i.e. Kafka and RabbitMQ), API gateways, SQL/NoSQL/Graph databases, caching systems, and serverless platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices
• Interest in open-source platform and infrastructure technologies
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with secure coding practices and platform security principles
• 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
• Experience as a mentor, or a tech lead in an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, or related field
• Engineering experience with a public PaaS or cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems in Production
• Experience with serverless runtimes and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with developer tooling as a builder and/or user
• 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
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 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)