About Runway
Runway is a pioneering research company developing new tools for human imagination. At the forefront of multi-modal AI systems, Runway ensures that content creation is accessible, controllable, and empowering for creatives. Our mission is to ensure that anyone, anywhere can tell their stories, believing that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.
About the Role
We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Backend team in New York. This role involves building cutting-edge, AI-powered video creation and collaboration tools. You will work on backend services for interactive video processing and streaming, and deploy cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to production.
Responsibilities
- Work with a world-class engineering team to push the boundaries of creativity and content creation on the browser.
- Implement new product features across the Backend stack for Runway’s machine learning-based video creation and collaboration tools.
- Create server-side components using the latest in machine learning and graphics.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases.
Technical Stack
Our video streaming backend components are written in Python, use FFmpeg/libav and HLS for on-the-fly transcoding, PyTorch and TorchScript for ML inference, and are deployed as containerized services on Kubernetes. Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management are written in Typescript and Node.js, and are deployed as serverless functions on AWS Lambda.
What You’ll Need
- 3+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, ideally backend focused.
- Demonstrated fluency in one or more programming languages, including Python, Node.js, or Rust.
- Experience in architecting production-ready systems and familiarity with debugging and profiling tools.
- 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.
Working at Runway
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. We strive to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for innovation
- Collaborative team environment
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