Engineering Manager API
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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
