Lead Serverless Platform Engineer — Remote, Stock Options

Speedrun Talent Network; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Meaningful stock options

Remote-first setup

Flexible hours

Family leave

Company retreats

Job summary

Speedrun Talent Network is seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to technically lead and build Runware’s serverless platform. You’ll be part of a small team working closely with senior leadership to bring a new product line to market.

You’ll design and implement backend services, APIs and the control plane, collaborating with infrastructure and ML teams to optimize startup time, scalability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Staff Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar
• 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 one or more backend languages ideally Go
• Good judgement around trade‑offs between reliability, latency, scale, cost and developer experience
• Clear communication, strong ownership and the 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

Async processing

API design

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Databases

Job description

Speedrun Talent Network is seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to technically lead and build Runware’s serverless platform. You’ll be part of a small team working closely with senior leadership to bring a new product line to market.

You’ll design and implement backend services, APIs and the control plane, collaborating with infrastructure and ML teams to optimize startup time, scalability and reliability.