Staff Serverless Platform Lead — Remote + Stock Options

Runware; Spain; Remote; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Stock options

Remote-first setup

Flexible hours

Family leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Runware seeks a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to lead and build its serverless platform. You’ll join a small team working with senior leadership to bring a new product line to market.

You’ll connect Runware's high-performance sonic inference engine to a developer-friendly platform, enabling model deployment and AI workloads without managing GPUs or infrastructure, at scale. This role rewards technical leadership, solving hard platform problems, and delivering clean, simple systems that empower

Qualifications

• Strong experience as Staff Engineer or Senior Software Engineer.
• Experience building backend services, distributed systems, developer platforms or workload orchestration systems.
• Strong understanding of async processing, queues, scheduling, retries, back pressure and failure handling.
• Comfortable working across APIs, control planes, workers, databases and observability systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in backend languages, ideally Go.
• Good judgement around trade-offs between reliability, latency, scale, cost and developer experience.
• Clear communication, strong ownership and ability to lead technical direction in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build the core systems behind Runware's serverless platform, including workload execution, routing, scheduling, isolation and scaling leveraging our inference engine
• Make it simple for developers to deploy models and run AI workloads without managing GPUs, servers, queues or infrastructure through a simple SDK interface
• Design and improve the control plane for serverless execution, including APIs, workers, lifecycle management, retries and failure handling
• Work closely with our infrastructure and ML teams to improve workload startup time, GPU utilisation, model warm-up, caching and placement
• Build observability that makes serverless workloads easy to monitor, debug and operate at scale globally
• Lead the technical design, mentor other engineers and help define the engineering standards for a new product area

Skills

Staff Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Backend Engineer

Platform Engineer

Distributed systems

APIs

Leadership

Tools

Go

Job description

Runware seeks a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to lead and build its serverless platform. You’ll join a small team working with senior leadership to bring a new product line to market.

You’ll connect Runware's high-performance sonic inference engine to a developer-friendly platform, enabling model deployment and AI workloads without managing GPUs or infrastructure, at scale. This role rewards technical leadership, solving hard platform problems, and delivering clean, simple systems that empower