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At Railway, we take the complexity out of shipping software. We aim to make developers more effective by allowing them to ship their code without any fuss — write your code, push it to us, and we deliver it to your end-users. We’re the Railway that takes your code from A to Z in a straight line: no transfers, no mad scrambling for boarding, no chaos in your journey.

Support Engineering at Railway is a hybrid role. We’re all about driving meaningful resolution, and building systems that we can throw into a while(1); loop to compound our abilities to build systems that 100x’es our horsepower.

Curious? Learn more in our blog post at titled "Support Engineering is Engineering": (https://blog.railway.app/p/support-engineering-is-engineering)

About The Role

You will talk to users and drive meaningful resolution.

Users should walk away from a conversation with us feeling like we’ve got their backs. Meaningful resolution at Railway can take many forms: it can be a core product improvement that eliminates an entire class of issue, a gentle pointer to a documentation page, or specific advice on how they can move forward.

You are the champion of our users.

As a cloud platform, we have users of varying skill levels from all walks of their development journey. They have different requirements, run into different pain points, and view solutions to issues differently. We help them succeed in using Railway no matter where they’re at.

You write, for us and our users.

We rely heavily on documentation, both internally and externally. Posterity is a superpower, and writing is how we federate it — whether that’s runbooks for troubleshooting common scenarios and issues our users encounter, documentation for educating users on features, or API references to help users build on top of the primitives we provide.

You will build systems to improve our team’s capabilities.

We focus on improving our team’s capabilities by “steamrolling busy work.” Rather than throwing headcount at issues, we build systems to eliminate them altogether. This means that any repetitive work eventually gets automated to some reasonable degree, whether in the form of workflow improvements or internal tooling. We’re a small team that likes to keep things lean, and we need strong systems to keep our flywheels spinning.

About You

You’re a great fit if you have:

• A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
• A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
• A high degree of empathy for developers of all skill levels, and willingness to meet them where they’re at
• A hacker mindset that recognizes patterns, the shortest-path to resolving issues, and eventually addressing the root cause of the issue

The ideal candidate we’re looking for should have:

• The ability to debug complex technical issues that may range from tracing code paths to wrangling with *nix-y systems
• Effective writing and communication skills with a personable nature; able to distill difficult technical concepts to a wide range of users
• Some level of working knowledge in the DevTools or infrastructure space: Docker, kubernetes, cloud platforms, etc.
• A keen interest in full-stack engineering, from aligning a button to building resilient back-end systems
• Worked in a software engineering team, and cross-functional teams interfacing with engineering, product, and support at some levels

This role, in our opinion, is perfect for folks who have done a tour or two in Support Engineering, Technical Product Management, and/or Software Development. We don’t require you to check every box on the list, and we generally prefer working with people that are hungry for knowledge in areas they feel they’re lacking in, so please don’t hesitate to shoot us an application if you find Railway and the role interesting!

We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds

Things to know

For better or worse, we're a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.

• We're distributed ALL across the globe, and that's only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening.
• We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but you'll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone else's.
• We're a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing we're 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. There's a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.
• We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.

Benefits And Perks

At Railway, we provide best in class benefits. Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more. For more details, check back on the main careers page.

Beyond compensation, there are a few things that we believe that make working at Railway truly unique:

• Autonomy: We have very few meetings. Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board. We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
• Ownership: We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture. We hope that you'll come in, help us, and over the course of many years do the best work of your life. When we bring you onboard, we expect you to change the company.
• Novel problems/solutions: We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions! We abhor “busywork” and think, whether it's community, engineering, operations, etc there's always opportunity for creative and high leverage solutions.
• Growth: We want you to grow with us, but we know that talent is loaned, so when you figure out what area you want to grow in next, whether it's at Railway or outside, we'll make sure you land there.

How We Hire

No tricks. No surprises. Here's the entire process:

• Talk with us 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.
• Work on a small project to discuss in the interview
• Asynchronously implement the following:
• Create a GitHub issues renderer.
• You will submit your solution before the interview, and sit down with a member of the team and go over the above. We'll poke into your solution, as well as get you acquainted with a member of the team.
• You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.
• Review your solution with the Team
• You'll sit down with someone on the team and go over the above. We'll poke into your solution, as well as get you acquainted with a member of the team.
• Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.
• Meet the Team
• You'll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company.
• Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.
• Offer and Details Chat with CEO
• Finally, we will go over the process, the role, and hammer out the details about your position, onboarding, and all the deets.

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