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

BNSF Railway • ,

13d • $123,750 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

This is a full-time remote position for a Product, Platform & Enterprise Full Stack Software Engineer II at BNSF, a major U.S. railroad company. The role involves innovating and transforming the future of freight rail through technology. BNSF | Tech is the technology division responsible for this transformation. The company is committed to a culture of safety, inclusion, and excellence, where all employees are included, belong, and have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential. The position offers the chance to drive change and advance a career in a dynamic and supportive environment, reshaping the future of freight rail. Employees can work from anywhere within the contiguous 48 states of the United States, with travel up to 20% required for in-person meetings at the corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, TX. BNSF is open to sponsoring H-1B transfers, TN nonimmigrant status, and STEM OPT candidates with at least 2 years of remaining eligibility. The job posting is active and may be filled prior to the closing date, approximately seven days after the posting date.

Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US
• Minimum 3 years of software development or related experience
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 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 product and business teams to develop applications that serve customers through the use of reusable and scalable software services operating with high efficiency.
• Build software and deliver innovative services that can scale and make other engineering organizations leverage platforms to enable speed to market.
• Empower the workforce with cutting-edge collaboration tools and services.
• Boost productivity, enhance mobility and ensure reliable systems for finance, human resources legal operations and more.
• Learn, develop and deliver high quality software that is highly visible.
• Deliver innovative projects that directly impact railroad logistics to effectively serve customers to move freight on time.
• Develop and deploy software for core freight movement operations that spans across platform, product and enterprise engineering.
• Build and operate 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.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree