[Hiring] Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Sr/Staff Software Engineer @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.

BNSF | Tech is the technology division making BNSF the preeminent freight and mobility company in North America. If you are passionate about making a difference and eager to advance your career in a dynamic and supportive environment, we want you on our team!

Key responsibilities may include:

• Own and deliver highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics.
• Drive the technical and architectural vision for a core team that develops software for our core freight movement operations.
• Involve in all aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of our product.
• Focus on building and operating platform services such as messaging systems, micro-services, data platforms, serverless runtimes, and customer experiences.
• 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 designing and coding effective solutions in an agile environment.
• Own architecture for large-scale, complex systems.
• Make critical technical decisions balancing business needs and engineering trade-offs.
• Drive cross-team alignment on technical solutions.
• Establish and maintain coding and design best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more technical domains.
• Mentor and grow other engineers, including other senior engineers.
• Anticipate technical risks and design systems to mitigate them.

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 software programming language.
• 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 (preferred).
• 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 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.
• Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions.
• 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.