Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

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🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Runway

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Media

Runway is a company building foundational "Real-World Intelligence" — large models and systems that can understand, simulate and act in the visual world. It offers three main product platforms built on these models: Runway Creative, an all‑in‑one cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images and audio for individuals and teams; Runway Dev, an AI media platform and API for developers to run models, compose pipelines and trigger workflows; and Runway Robotics, a toolkit for photorealistic simulation, policy inference and synthetic data generation powered by their General World Model (GWM-1). Runway also publishes research (e. g. , GWM-1, Gen-4. 5 video model) and serves both individual creators and enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Own the full API lifecycle from design and implementation to monitoring, optimization, and documentation for both public and internal APIs • Design and implement async workflows for task orchestration, content moderation, prompt enhancement, and post-processing pipelines • Optimize database queries and improve performance for a high-traffic Postgres database • Build rate limiting, fraud detection, and credit management systems • Implement comprehensive API security, rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring systems to ensure reliability at scale • Improve the public API developer experience with better documentation, SDKs, and tooling • Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience building production APIs • Strong TypeScript experience • Experience owning systems end-to-end: infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, incident response • Understanding of API design patterns, REST principles, and async workflows • Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and query optimization • Experience architecting production-ready systems at scale using cloud primitives from AWS, GCP, or Azure • Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines • Humility and open mindedness

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary based on competitive market rates • Pay equity for our team