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. As a Staff Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, and ensure engineering excellence to deliver innovative solutions impacting freight movement operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 6-10 engineers, guiding end-to-end technical execution
- Drive technical vision and strategy across distributed systems
- Mentor junior and senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical solutions
- Ensure secure coding practices and platform reliability
- Own architecture for large-scale systems and making critical technical decisions
- Translate railroad business requirements into scalable digital solutions
- Establish engineering best practices, observability, and technical debt management
Skills
- Authorized to work in the US
- Minimum of 9 years' experience as a software engineer and/or manager
- Minimum of 6 years' experience as an engineer
- 6+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
- Experience with distributed systems and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, API gateways, SQL/NoSQL/Graph databases, caching systems, and serverless platforms
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices
- Experience building enterprise products leveraging 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 adapt quickly
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience leading multiple teams and delivering cross organizational platform and products
- 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)
- 6+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 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
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.
- Travel expenses for business needs will be covered by BNSF
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.