Engineering Manager, API

About the role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for Runway's product platform and API. You should have experience growing high-performing engineering teams and be deeply interested in the intersection of product development, APIs, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive platform strategy and architecture for our TypeScript-based API infrastructure, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and scalability as we grow
• Own the public API domain end-to-end, from technical architecture to revenue growth, ensuring it's a high-quality, revenue-generating platform that developers love
• Lead and grow a team of 4-6 platform engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Partner with Product Engineering teams to unblock new feature launches, providing platform support and ensuring smooth integration between frontend experiences and backend capabilities
• Own critical data pipelines and metrics that power business decisions across Finance (cost-of-sales, revenue attribution), Support (usage analytics, error tracking), and Product (feature adoption, performance metrics)

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with specific expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Strong product sensibility and business acumen – you understand how technical decisions impact revenue, customer satisfaction, and company metrics
• Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products, with an understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience
• Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics, including experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling
• Database expertise, particularly in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills – you can translate technical concepts for business teams, explain business constraints to engineers, and build consensus across diverse stakeholders
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration – you can make smart trade-offs between perfect and good-enough in a fast-moving startup environment
• Empathetic and inclusive leadership style that empowers engineers to do their best work

Qualifications

• Empathy and inclusivity
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience with TypeScript, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Flyte, Kueue, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform
• Experience with real-time collaboration and media asset management APIs
• Experience with inference backend in Python (PyTorch, TorchScript)
• Experience with data engineering and analytics, including metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling
• Experience with managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity
• Experience with cross-functional communication and collaboration

Skills

• Technical leadership and management
• API economics and usage-based pricing
• Data engineering and analytics
• Database management and data migration
• Communication and collaboration

Benefits

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

Pay

The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range. Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Schedule

We are committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.