⚙️ Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build product and infrastructure: shape architectural decisions for scale, working closely with design and PM to plan and implement the core product
• ▹Build a technical foundation that is flexible and adapts to a wide variety of product needs
• ▹Grow the team by attracting, closing, and developing talented teammates
• ▹Build a formula evaluation and query engine that lets customers scale beyond any spreadsheet
• ▹Support an integrations platform with hundreds of connections querying millions of rows of data
• ▹Scale infrastructure to support Runway's future growth

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of professional backend engineering experience (staff-level experience is a plus)
• ▹A track record of building robust, scalable systems
• ▹An ownership mindset: understanding customer problems and finding the best path forward independently
• ▹Pride in your craft and a drive to keep improving it
• ▹An inclusive, collaborative approach to teamwork

Nice to have

• ▹Experience leading a team on a large web application
• ▹Expertise in Go
• ▹Experience or interest in DevOps and infrastructure
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes or Google Cloud Platform

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary range of $190,000-$230,000 + generous early-employee equity + benefits
• ▹Remote-first across North America

About the company

Runway is a collaborative business planning platform that replaces traditional spreadsheets with a modern solution understandable across the whole company. Its customers include AngelList, Superhuman, Stability.AI, ConvertKit, Lambda Labs, Lob, and SandboxVR. Investors include Garry Tan (YC & Initialized), a16z, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Dylan Field (founder of Figma), Eric Ries, Claire Hughes Johnson (COO of Stripe), Henry Ward (founder of Carta), and others. The team is remote-first across North America, with offices in San Francisco and New York City.