Engineering Manager API

Runway is an AI company building generative media, developer, and robotics products on top of its real-world intelligence and general world models.

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About Runway

Runway provides a cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images, and audio; an API platform for developers; and a robotics toolkit for policy inference, simulation, and synthetic data generation powered by its GWM-1 general world model.

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About the Role

You will lead platform engineers and own API architecture, public API delivery, data infrastructure, pipelines, metrics, and cross-functional priorities. You will support product launches, set technical direction, ensure scalable and reliable systems, and align platform investments with business needs.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of engineering management or team-lead experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience
  • Experience operating TypeScript services in AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience with revenue-generating platforms or products
  • Knowledge of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience
  • Data engineering and analytics experience
  • Database management, data migration, and data-integrity expertise
  • Cross-functional communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Drive platform strategy and architecture for TypeScript API infrastructure
  • Own the public API domain from technical architecture to revenue growth
  • Manage data and analytics infrastructure
  • Lead and grow platform engineers
  • Support product-engineering feature launches and integrations
  • Own data pipelines and metrics for Finance, Support, and Product
  • Set priorities, communicate progress, and align platform investments with business goals