Engineering Manager, API
Runway · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$280k – $340k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Engineering Manager
- Fully remote
- TypeScript + AWS
- Team of 5-6
- API focus
Runway is developing world models to simulate reality, merging art and science to advance artificial intelligence. The company seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the product platform and public API.
You will guide a group of platform engineers in building high-reliability infrastructure for AI-powered creation tools. The role involves close collaboration with product, finance, and engineering teams to ensure scalable and revenue-generating API solutions.
What you'll do
- Drive strategy and architecture for TypeScript-based API infrastructure
- Own the public API domain from technical design to revenue growth
- Manage data and analytics infrastructure for integrity and security
- Lead and grow a team of four to six platform engineers
- Partner with product teams to unblock feature launches and integrations
- Own critical data pipelines powering finance, support, and product metrics
- Align platform investments with business goals through cross-functional work
What you'll need
- Two plus years experience as an engineering manager or team lead
- Five plus years hands-on engineering with TypeScript services in cloud
- Strong product sensibility and understanding of business impact
- Experience owning revenue-generating platforms and API economics
- Solid foundation in data engineering, metrics pipelines, and BI tooling
- Expertise in managing production databases at scale and data migrations
- Excellent communication skills for translating technical concepts
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in startup environments
- Empathetic and inclusive leadership style empowering engineers
Stack
- TypeScript
- AWS Fargate
- S3
- CloudFront
- Lambda
- Kinesis
- SQS
- Python
- PyTorch
- Kubernetes
- Flyte
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Terraform
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Salary range applies to candidates in the U.S.
- International salaries may vary based on location