Sr/Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

Role Description

Be part of a team that values safety, inclusion, and excellence. As a member of our team, you will play a role in supporting the movement of essential products and materials that help feed, clothe, supply, and power communities throughout America and the world.

This is a full stack infrastructure engineering role, involving backend services, APIs, and developer-facing services for our physical/digital infrastructure and platforms. A modern platform that brings together virtual machines, containers, storage, data services, networking, observability, and developer experience, all managed as software.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field (preferred).
• Engineering experience with a public IaaS company (AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, CoreWeave, etc.) (preferred).
• Experience running infrastructure platforms in production such as OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, DBaaS, service mesh, and API gateways (preferred).
• Github commits to open-source infrastructure and developer platforms projects (preferred).
• Experience with edge systems and hybrid environments (preferred).
• Experience with developer tooling as a builder and/or user (preferred).
• Proficiency with container-based development (preferred).
• Interest in sustainable infrastructure and cost/resource awareness (preferred).
• Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot (preferred).
• Able to work now and in the future without BNSF’s assistance in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization (preferred).

Benefits

• An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program.
• A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents (including domestic partners), including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, cancer support, and high-quality care network options.
• Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost.
• Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match).
• Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support.
• Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program).
• Generous leave / time off policies.