# Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

Hiring organization: [Runway](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/runway)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f810cd1c-82cc-4beb-ba7d-624b646f733b

Listed on Runway's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 240000 – 290000 USD per year

## Summary

Backend API engineer role focused on scaling Runway's infrastructure to handle millions of users and thousands of requests per second. This suits engineers who thrive owning production systems end-to-end, from design through monitoring, and want to build robust async workflows and database optimization across TypeScript APIs and cloud infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Runway's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon CloudFront, Amazon ECS, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Grafana, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, PyTorch, Retrofit (REST), Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 3+ years building production APIs
- Strong TypeScript experience
- End-to-end system ownership including infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, and incident response
- API design patterns and REST principles knowledge
- Relational database experience with query optimization
- Production system architecture at scale using AWS, GCP, or Azure

## Nice to have

- PostgreSQL experience specifically
- Async workflow design experience
- Rapid prototyping ability
- Open mindedness and willingness to learn from teammates

Apply on Runway's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml/8489a08a-f0cf-4418-968c-c7c803d538bc/application