Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$100M
1 round on record
Latest round
$100M
Series B · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
7
Audax Private Equity, FPV Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 20 On the Hacker News front page Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension · 457 points Jan 22 Raised a round Series B $100M Jun 7, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Why We're Moving on from Nix · 275 points Jan 17, 2025 On the Hacker News front page So you want to build your own data center · 596 points Nov 14, 2024 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Railway – A better way to build software. Period 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
34 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
14 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Jan 2026 $100M — blog.railway.com
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How Railway hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Railway scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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

Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.

News

News agent-pool-gateway-production.up.railway.app 16 days ago
Agent Pool M2M economy where AI agents bid, execute work, and earn autonomously Read more
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News noteノート 29 days ago
What is it actually like to work at a railway company? 5 gaps I felt after joining as someone who 'wasn't knowledgeable about trains'みの
When I tell people, "I work at a railway company," they sometimes ask, "Did you like trains to begin with?" But for me, that's not the case. I didn't have any special interest in railways, nor was I knowledgeable about trains. One of the big reasons I cho
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News Consumer Choice Center 1 month ago
European Railway Station Index 2026
Explore the 2026 European Railway Station Index, comparing major stations by punctuality, waiting times, accessibility, connections and amenities.
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News philo.gay 2 months ago
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
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News Railway 2 months ago
Your Cloud should come with an app builder Railway Blog
Announcing: dev.new, an agent that can build, preview, test, and deploy an app from the same place. We tested the whole loop by asking it to ship a real-time…
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Report
News media.ccc.de 3 months ago
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
I've been taking extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out the window of a moving train and stitching together th...
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News Railway 3 months ago
How we made a viral commercial for developers
We made a commercial for Railway featuring the actor behind Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley. This is how we made it so that a developer like you would watch it.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Railway over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Rust
Go
TypeScript
Node JS
Databases
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Railway tech stack 17 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
7
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
48 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Product
100% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Almaty Kazakhstan
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Jobs

≈ $139k – $242k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Frontend
GraphQL
Management
Stripe
Apply
≈ $114k – $210k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Go
Rust
gRPC
Terraform
Ansible
Immutable Infrastructure
Configuration Management
Apply
≈ $116k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Go
Rust
TypeScript
ClickHouse
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
gRPC
Terraform
Ansible
VictoriaMetrics
Immutable Infrastructure
Platform Engineering
Apply
≈ $115k – $212k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Rust
Linux
Apply
≈ $105k – $234k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Go
PostgreSQL
DevOps
gRPC
Apply
≈ $107k – $238k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Master's Degree
Go
Rust
PostgreSQL
DevOps
gRPC
Apply
≈ $137k – $237k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Rust
TypeScript
ClickHouse
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Git
GitHub
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$100M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $100M Details