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

About the role

BNSF | Tech is the technology division of BNSF, one of the largest U.S. railroads. We transport essential products and materials across 28 western states and 3 Canadian provinces, supporting communities worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Transform complex rail logistics and workflows into high-performing products that meet user needs and enhance efficiency.
• Develop software platforms enabling our product and business teams to create applications that serve our customers through reusable and scalable software services.
• Build and operate large-scale distributed systems such as messaging systems, micro-services, data platforms, serverless runtimes, and customer experiences.
• Apply AI/ML to develop scalable and highly reliable solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems.
• Solve broad challenges in an agile environment, focusing on innovation in distributed computing and driving industry transformation.
• Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance, designing and operating scalable systems across various environments.
• Work with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations, demonstrating operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of software development or related experience.
• Experience programming in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.).
• 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 adapt to new technologies quickly.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, or related field.
• Able to work now and in the future without BNSF’s assistance 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.
• Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot.
• Prior experience developing and delivering highly reliable distributed systems in production environment.

Skills

• Production-quality coding.
• Follow team coding standards and processes.
• Participation in design reviews.
• Writing and maintaining unit/integration tests.
• Debugging and fixing straightforward issues.
• Seeking feedback and applying it to improve.
• Building and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems.
• Collaboration with application teams.
• Designing and operating scalable systems.
• Working with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations.
• Innovating in distributed computing and driving industry transformation.
• Building solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems.
• Maintaining operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.

Benefits

• Industry-leading 401(k) and Railroad Retirement program.
• Robust health care options for you and your dependents (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.
• Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match).
• Discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support.
• An annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program).
• Generous leave / time off policies.

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $123,750 - $175,000.

Schedule

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.