Runway

Senior Platform Engineer

Runway$160K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • Strong background in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Deep familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containers, and distributed systems
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
  • Strong opinions on effective developer platform functionalities

Responsibilities

  • Define how services are deployed, discovered, and connected
  • Create self-service infrastructure that is functional and user-friendly
  • Enable engineers to easily spin up, test, and ship complex systems
  • Ensure scalable infrastructure as the company grows
  • Design and build internal developer platforms from scratch
  • Establish CI/CD systems that are fast, reliable, and operate seamlessly
  • Own observability through logs, metrics, and tracing across the system

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and define the internal developer platform from scratch
  • Focus on transforming infrastructure into a product, not just maintenance
  • Direct impact on system architecture, engineer productivity, and deployment speed
  • Collaboration with backend engineers to enhance system design
  • Work in a high-growth, early-stage environment where initiative is valued
Full Job Description
The role

You'll be responsible for designing and building the platform that our engineers (and eventually our customers) rely on every day.

That means:
  • Defining how services are deployed, discovered, and connected
  • Creating self-service infrastructure that actually works
  • Making it easy to spin up, test, and ship complex systems
  • Ensuring everything scales cleanly as we go from 0 1 1 N

You're not here to maintain infrastructure.
You're here to turn infrastructure into a product.

What you'll work on
  • Designing and building our internal developer platform from scratch
  • Creating tooling and abstractions that remove complexity for engineers
  • Defining service architecture, deployment patterns, and environment strategy
  • Building CI/CD systems that are fast, reliable, and invisible when working correctly
  • Owning observability (logs, metrics, tracing) across the system
  • Driving infrastructure as code across everything we build
  • Partnering closely with backend engineers to shape how systems are built
What we're looking for
  • Experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • Strong background in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Deep familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP), containers, and distributed systems
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
  • Strong opinions on how developer platforms should work
  • Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clean systems
Bonus points
  • Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
  • Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
  • Exposure to data platforms or graph-based systems
  • Experience in early-stage or 01 environments
Why this role matters

Most companies treat platform engineering as support.

We don't.

This team will define:
  • How every system is built
  • How every engineer works
  • How fast we can ship

If you get this right, everything else gets easier.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160,000-$250,000 USD.

About Runway

Runway is a fashion brand that specializes in women's clothing and accessories. The company offers a range of products, including dresses, tops, skirts, and handbags, that are designed to be both stylish and affordable. Runway's products are sold online and in select retail stores across the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
Learn more about Runway
Size
50 employees
Industry
Net Income
-$10,000
Founded
2015
5 Year Trend
+10%
Revenue
$50,000
NASDAQ

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