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$280,000 – $340,000
Listed on Runway’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead the platform engineering team building Runway's API infrastructure and data systems, overseeing a team of platform engineers while driving technical strategy for TypeScript-based services on AWS and managing critical data pipelines that support the business. This role suits an engineering manager with both hands-on cloud infrastructure expertise and the ability to balance technical excellence with business impact across a fast-moving AI company.
Our summary, not Runway’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Data Engineering
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Python
- PyTorch
- SQL
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
Required
- 2+ years as engineering manager or team lead with track record of building and scaling teams
- 5+ years hands-on engineering experience with TypeScript services in cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Strong product sensibility and business acumen understanding how technical decisions impact revenue and metrics
- Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products with understanding of API economics and developer experience
- Data engineering and analytics foundation including metrics pipelines, data modeling, and BI tooling
- Database expertise managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and data integrity
- Cross-functional communication skills translating between technical and business stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration making smart trade-offs in a startup environment
- Empathetic and inclusive leadership style empowering engineers