Engineering Manager, API

Workman Labs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Runway is seeking an engineering manager for the platform team behind its public TypeScript-based API infrastructure on AWS. The leader will own API strategy, data pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration to support revenue growth and scalable services.

The role requires strong leadership, 5+ years of engineering experience, and proven ability to scale teams in a fast-moving startup environment. Remote (US) work options available.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as engineering manager or team lead.
• 5+ years hands-on engineering in cloud environments.
• Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or APIs.
• Strong data engineering and analytics background.

Responsibilities

• Drive platform strategy and architecture for TS-based API infrastructure.
• Own public API domain end-to-end, including revenue considerations.
• Manage data and analytics pipelines for company-wide use.
• Lead a 4–6 person platform engineering team and foster excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Business acumen

Tools

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Job description

Runway is hiring an engineering manager for the platform team of five behind its public API, TypeScript services on AWS, and the data pipelines that finance, support and product run on.

$280,000 – $340,000 / yr

Location

Remote (US)

Remote

Seniority

Lead

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What you'll do

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
• Manage our data and analytics infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility for teams across the company
• 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)
• Work cross-functionally with leadership to set priorities, communicate progress, and align platform investments with business goals

What you'll need

Experience

• Our API endpoints for real-time collaboration and media asset management is written in TypeScript, and runs in ECS containers on AWS Fargate. We leverage multiple AWS-native components, such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, and SQS, as building blocks of our infrastructure.
• Our inference backend is written in Python (PyTorch, TorchScript), and is deployed across multiple clusters / cloud providers. We use Kubernetes for container orchestration, and k8s-native components such as Flyte, Kueue, and Kyverno efficient job orchestration. We invest in prometheus and grafana for monitoring, and Terraform to manage our infrastructure.
• 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 Unique