[Hiring] Full Stack Software Engineer I/II @BNSF Railway

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.

As a junior engineer in our teams, you will have the opportunity to learn, develop, and deliver high-quality software that is highly visible, delivering innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics to effectively serve our customers to move freight on time. You will be involved in developing and deploying software for our core freight movement operations that spans across platform, product, and enterprise engineering.

This is a full-stack engineering role, focused on building and operating large-scale distributed systems such as messaging systems, micro-services, data platforms, serverless runtimes, customer experiences, and applying AI/ML to develop scalable and highly reliable solutions.

• Write production-quality code for well-defined tasks.
• Follow team coding standards and processes.
• Participate in design reviews to learn best practices.
• Write and maintain unit/integration tests.
• Debug and fix straightforward issues.
• Seek feedback proactively and apply it to improve.
• 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 coding effective solutions in an agile environment.
• Demonstrate operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field OR 2 years of software development relevant experience without a Bachelor's degree.
• Experience programming in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience with developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software in production systems.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with secure coding practices.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, or related field (preferred).
• Able to work now and in the future without BNSF’s assistance in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization.
• Engineering experience with a public PaaS or cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 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.
• Prior experience developing and delivering highly reliable distributed systems in a production environment.

Benefits

• An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program.
• A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents, 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.