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 engineering role, focused on building and operating platform services such as: - Messaging systems - Micro-services - Data platforms - Serverless runtimes - Customer experiences - Applying AI/ML to develop scalable and highly reliable solutions Key responsibilities may include: - Owning and delivering highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics - Driving the technical and architectural vision for a core team that develops software for our core freight movement operations - Involvement in all aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of our product - Developing APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration - Building and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems for services - Collaborating with application teams to enhance reliability and performance - Designing and operating scalable systems across data centers, edge devices, and the cloud - Working with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations - Innovating in distributed computing and driving industry transformation - Building solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems - Solving broad challenges by designing and coding effective solutions in an agile environment - Owning architecture for large-scale, complex systems - Making critical technical decisions balancing business needs and engineering trade-offs - Driving cross-team alignment on technical solutions - Establishing and maintaining coding and design best practices - Serving as a subject matter expert in one or more technical domains - Mentoring and growing other engineers, including other senior engineers - Anticipating technical risks and designing systems to mitigate them - Demonstrating operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues Qualifications - 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 Requirements - 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 in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization 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) - Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions - Life and disability insurance, provided at no cost - Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support - Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support - Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program) - Generous leave / time off policies