Runway
Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API
$240K–$290K
Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 29, 2022
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience building production APIs.
About the job
Build and scale Runway’s public and internal APIs, supporting platform infrastructure, asynchronous workflows, and reliable services for millions of users.
What you'll do
- Own API design, implementation, monitoring, optimization, and documentation.
- Develop task orchestration and other asynchronous workflows; optimize Postgres queries and API performance.
- Build security, rate limiting, fraud detection, credit management, and developer tooling.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of industry experience building production APIs.
- Strong TypeScript experience.
- Experience owning systems end-to-end, including infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, and incident response.
- Experience with API design and async workflows, relational databases and query optimization, and production systems at scale using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Nice to have
- Postgres experience.
Pay
$240K – $290K USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, S3, CloudFront, Lambda
AI focus
The role supports Runway’s AI platform by building API infrastructure and asynchronous workflows for task orchestration, content moderation, prompt enhancement, and post-processing.
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