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.

This is a hybrid user-facing role with some full-stack engineering elements. Learn more in our blog post at Support Engineering is Engineering. The sister role for this is Senior Customer Success Engineer.

Want to learn about our work culture? Here is a four-part blog series that will help you see the unique ways our team works (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).

About the role

Build tooling and automation to improve support workflows and customer experience
Write code to fix bugs, add features, and improve the product based on customer feedback
Work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions
Create internal tools and dashboards to help the support team be more effective
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to surface patterns and insights from customer interactions

About you

You're a great fit if you have:

Strong full-stack engineering skills with experience in TypeScript, GraphQL, and modern web technologies
Experience working directly with users or customers in a technical capacity
Ability to context-switch between debugging customer issues and building product features
Strong communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
A mindset for pattern recognition - seeing trends in customer issues and proactively addressing them
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, autonomous environment

This role, in our opinion, is perfect for folks who have done tours in Technical Support, Developer Advocacy, or Engineering roles where you worked closely with users.

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. 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.

1. 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.

2. Work on a small project to discuss in the interview

Asynchronously implement the following:

Go to https://station.railway.com/bounties
Answer up to 5 questions and link them to us
We'll review the questions in the interview

You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time. Ask away!

3. 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 two more members of the team.

Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.

4. 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.

5. Chat with CEO

Sit down with our founder and CEO for 30 minutes. This is a 1:1, open ended conversation.

6. Offer call

Finally, we will present the offers, hammer out the details about your position, tee up onboarding, and start our journey together.

Final Note: The interview goes both ways. Once again, please ask us things. Many things! Hard things. That's what we're here for.

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