Staff Software Engineer - Serverless

What this role involves

Runware is seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to technically lead and build their serverless platform, enabling developers to deploy models and run AI workloads without managing infrastructure. The role involves building core systems for workload execution, routing, scheduling, isolation, and scaling, as well as designing the control plane and observability. The position is remote-first with flexible hours, and requires strong experience in backend services, distributed systems, and workload orchestration.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• kubernetes
• nomad
• knative
• vllm
• tensorrt
• triton
• serverless
• distributed systems
• workload orchestration
• async processing
• queues
• scheduling
• retries
• back pressure
• failure handling
• apis
• control planes
• workers
• databases
• observability
• gpu
• ai/ml inference

Requirements

• Level: staff
• Remote policy: remote

From the employer’s posting

We’re looking for 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. Runware is evolving beyond model APIs into a platform where developers can deploy models and run AI workloads without managing GPUs, servers or infrastructure. You’ll build the software layer that connects our proprietary high-performance sonic inference engine and turns…