Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BNSF Railway is one of the largest U.S. railroads transporting freight across 28 western states and 3 Canadian provinces. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to drive the technical and architectural vision for core freight movement operations, focusing on building and operating platform services while enhancing efficiency and reliability in freight logistics.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact our railroad logistics to effectively serve our customers to move freight on time
- Drive the technical and architectural vision for a core team that develops software for our core freight movement operations, as well as all the aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of our product
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, or related field
- 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 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)
Benefits
- In addition to base pay and bonus eligibility, BNSF offers a comprehensive benefits package.
- Employees may work from anywhere within the contiguous 48 states of the United States
- Travel expenses for business needs will be covered by BNSF
- 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.
Company Overview
BNSF Railway operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,500 route miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.bnsf.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
BNSF Railway has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2026, 9 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.