Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Software Engineer I/II (Remote - US)

BNSF Railway • ,

8d • $93,750 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

BNSF | Tech is the technology division making BNSF the preeminent freight and mobility company in North America. We are looking for passionate individuals eager to advance their careers in a dynamic and supportive environment to join us in reshaping the future of freight rail. We are committed to a culture where all employees are included, belong, and have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential. This is a full-time remote position. Employees may work from anywhere within the contiguous 48 states of the United States. Travel is up to 20%. 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. 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, or related field
• 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).
• 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 production environment.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the gap between vision and reality by transforming complex rail logistics and workflows into high-performing products that meet user needs, enhance efficiency and accelerate our business.
• Develop software platforms that enable our product and business teams to be able to develop applications that serve our customers through use of reusable and scalable software services operating with high efficiency.
• Empower the workforce with cutting-edge collaboration tools and services.
• As a junior engineer in our teams, you will have the opportunity to learn, develop and deliver high quality software that is highly visible, delivery 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree