About the Role
<p><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>be part of a team that values safety, inclusion, and excellence </strong></span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">we are one of the largest U.S. railroads transporting the nation’s freight across 28 western states and 3 Canadian provinces. 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.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>bnsf | tech: </strong>innovating and transforming the future of freight rail</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>bnsf | tech</strong> is the technology division making BNSF the preeminent freight and mobility company in north america.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>are you ready to drive change?</strong></span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">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! join us in reshaping the future of freight rail and discover a fulfilling career where your contributions matter.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">we are committed to a culture where all employees are included, belong, and have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential. Come make a difference with us!</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">learn more about <a title="" href="https://jobs.bnsf.com/us/en/who-we-are" target="_self">BNSF</a> and our <a title="" href="https://worklife.alight.com/ah-angular-afirst-web/#/web/bnsf/cp/candidateselectionpage?forkPage=false" target="_self">Benefits</a></span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Job Location:</strong> Remote US</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Anticipated Start Date:</strong> 01/01/2026</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The US base salary range for this full-time position is provided below:</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Salary Range: </strong>$165,000 - $300,000</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">L5: $165,000 - $220,00</span><br><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">L6: $225,000 - $300,000</span></p><p><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The range represents the amount <strong>bnsf | tech</strong> reasonably expects to pay for the position based on the level, scope, and responsibilities of the role. Individual compensation and level of position offered is determined by the hiring location and additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to base pay and bonus eligibility, BNSF offers a comprehensive <a title="" href="https://worklife.alight.com/ah-angular-afirst-web/#/web/bnsf/cp/candidateselectionpage?forkPage=false" target="_self">benefits</a> package.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>This is a full-time remote </strong>position. Employees may work from anywhere within the contiguous 48 states of the United States</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Travel is up to 20%</strong>. Employees will be required to occasionally travel to our corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, TX for in person meetings. Travel expenses for business needs will be covered by BNSF </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This position is open to candidates who are currently authorized to work in the United States. We are also open to sponsoring H-1B transfers, TN nonimmigrant status, and STEM OPT candidates with at least 2 years of remaining eligibility.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apply early as this job may be removed or filled prior to the closing date, which is approximately seven (7) days after the posting date.</span></p><p> </p><br><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>infrastructure: </strong>build rail’s first hybrid cloud to enable millions of freight transactions a day with an open-source stack that delivers the lowest unit cost of technology.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="color:darkorange"><em><u>Key responsibilities may include:</u></em></span><strong><br></strong>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.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Develop and operate </strong>cloud-native systems and services using GitOps workflows</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Build and operate </strong>IaaS (compute, storage, and networking), PaaS (DBs, messages, API, and serverless), identity/access, observability/alerting/remediation, and developer services</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Collaborate </strong>with internal application teams to improve platform usability and feedback</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Help design and run </strong>systems that scale across our data centers, edge devices, and public cloud environments powering always on services</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong><br></strong><span style="color:darkorange"><em>The duties and responsibilities in this posting are representative categories to be used in deciding whether to apply for this position. This is not an exhaustive list of the position’s duties. </em> </span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">At BNSF Railway, we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, showcasing their skills, experiences and development. We provide resources and tools to help you reach your full potential, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Authorized to work in the US</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">6+ years of proficiency with modern programming languages used in infrastructure (e.g. Go, Python, and Java)</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">5+ years of experience with IaaS, PaaS, Service Mesh, block/object storage, and Linux</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">3+ years experience with streaming data services and SQL/NoSQL/Graph DBs</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Interest in open-source infrastructure and developer platforms</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with secure coding practices and infrastructure security principles</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with secrets management and identity and access control</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Proven ability to independently deliver features that improve developer workflows or platform capabilities</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience collaborating across teams and mentoring junior engineers.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with designing scalable systems and contributing to architectural decisions.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong communication and collaboration skills</span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Engineering experience with a public IaaS company (AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, CoreWeave,etc.)</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience running infrastructure platforms in production such as OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, DBaaS, service mesh, and API gateways</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Github commits to open-source infrastructure and developer platforms projects</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with edge systems and hybrid environments</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience with developer tooling as a builder and/or user</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Proficiency with container-based development</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Interest in sustainable infrastructure and cost/resource awareness</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Able to work now and in the future without BNSF’s assistance (whether monetary, through sponsorship, or otherwise) in obtaining, maintaining, or extending employment authorization (including H-1B, STEM OPT/CPT, or TN nonimmigrant status).</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </p><br><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>At BNSF, you will have access to a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including:</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">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.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match).</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program)</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Generous leave / time off policies.</span></li><li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">For more information, visit <a title="" href="https://worklife.alight.com/ah-angular-afirst-web/#/web/bnsf/cp/candidateselectionpage?forkPage=false" target="_self">Benefits</a>.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Please be aware of potential fraud that can occur when searching for new career opportunities. Please review our <a title="" href="https://jobs.bnsf.com/us/en/faqs" target="_self">FAQ</a> for more information and awareness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">All positions require pre-employment background verification.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">BNSF Railway is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.</span></p><p><span style="color:#d3d3d3;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SF: MO | [[mfield5]] | bnsf tech | REMOTE, US | 76131</span></p>