Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API
Overview
Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science, focusing on world models at the frontier of artificial intelligence.
Job Description
Runway is a company focused on building AI-powered video creation and collaboration tools, leveraging world models for general-purpose simulation.
Responsibilities
- - Work with a world-class engineering team pushing the boundaries of creativity and content creation on the browser
- - Own the full API lifecycle from design and implementation to monitoring, optimization, and documentation for both public and internal APIs
- - Implement comprehensive API security, rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring systems to ensure reliability at scale
- - Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases
Required Skills
- - 4+ years of industry experience in a backend focused software engineering role
- - Fluency of one or more programming languages; TypeScript preferred
- - Experience with PostgreSQL, including query optimization, indexing, and database design
- - 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; at Runway we love to learn from one another
Benefits
- - Competitive salary based on market rates
- - Opportunity to work with a diverse and talented team
- - Remote work flexibility across North America and Europe
About the company
Runway builds AI to simulate the world by merging art and science. Runway believes that world models represent the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone are insufficient to solve the world’s hardest problems—such as robotics, disease, and scientific discovery. Meaningful progress requires models that can experience the world and learn from their mistakes, in much the same way humans do. Runway focuses on accelerating this learning through simulation rather than real-world trial and error. By enabling rapid experimentation in simulated environments, world models provide a clear path toward general-purpose simulation and more capable AI systems. Runway operates offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv, with team members working remotely from around the world.
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