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How BNSF Railway hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
15 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
0%

BNSF Railway scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 80% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 15 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, and moving consumer goods, grain, coal, industrial products and intermodal containers. Owned by Berkshire Hathaway, it operates about 32,500 miles of track across the western two-thirds of the United States and parts of Canada and was formed in 1995 by the merger of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroads. It hires conductor trainees across many terminals, electricians and mechanical crafts, police dispatchers, highway vehicle operators, and technology and business interns trained in Fort Worth.

News

News YahooFinance 22 days ago
BNSF Railway CISO Alex Levy Named Inaugural TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced that Alex Levy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), BNSF Railway, has been named the inaugural TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year.
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Press release PRNewswire 22 days ago
BNSF Railway CISO Alex Levy Named Inaugural TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year
/PRNewswire/ -- Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced that Alex Levy, Chief Information Security...
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Press release Nasdaq 9 months ago
BNSF Railway Surpasses Own Industry-Leading Safety Records in 2025
BNSF Railway, one of North America' s leading freight transportation companies, announced today its safety results for 2025, reporting the best year ever in the company' s 177- year history. BNSF, comprised of approximately 35,000 employees, operated its
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Press release Nasdaq 2 years ago
BNSF Railway has record year for safety in 2023
BNSF Railway completed a record year for workplace safety in 2023, with the lowest injury frequency rate in the company' s 175- year history. Rob Cunningham, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen general chairman added," We take great pride in
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at BNSF Railway over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Java40%
JavaScript33%
SQL33%
TypeScript33%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular33%
React.js33%
Spring Boot33%
OpenTelemetry20%
Cloud & platforms
Grafana20%
AWS20%
Azure20%
GCP20%
AI & ML
Claude7%
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Full BNSF Railway tech stack 40 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$113k
Typical range
$98k – $135k
Open positions
7
4 Jobs
Intern 25%
Middle 25%
Senior 25%
Architect 25%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $98k $98k
Middle 1 $125k $125k
Senior 1 $107k $107k
Architect 1 $135k $135k
Highest paying role Manager/Director Human Resources (Minneapolis, MN) $135k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at BNSF Railway By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
54/100
Stable
Open positions
83
50 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
14 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Field & Service
58% ▲
Early Careers
20% ▲
Finance
4% ▲
HR
4% ▲
Operations
3% ▲
Industrial Engineering
3% ▲
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+48 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+9 jobs in a week Oct 2026
+33 jobs in a week Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Fort Worth United States
HQ
1000-5000 est. staff

Jobs

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Prompt Engineering
Chain-of-Thought
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Apache Kafka
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