Staff Software Engineer - Inference & Performance

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to take technical ownership of latency, throughput, and reliability across Runware’s AI inference platform. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who obsesses over performance at scale.

What You Will Do

Own end-to-end inference performance across the platform, lead the architecture and design of core inference systems, drive the platform toward sub-1 second inference, and make high-impact architectural decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of systems design, performance engineering, and real-world scale, and who wants clear ownership over outcomes that matter directly to customers.

Requirements

• Excellent experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend and systems development
• Proven experience building and operating high-performance, low-latency distributed systems in production
• Deep understanding of asynchronous processing, queues, concurrency models, and back pressure
• Strong intuition for performance trade-offs across CPU, GPU, networking, storage, and application layers
• Experience making and defending critical architectural decisions in complex systems
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting real production issues under load
• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability stacks
• Ability to communicate clearly and influence across teams in a remote-first environment
• Strong mentorship mindset and a desire to raise the technical bar across the organisation

Benefits

• Generous paid time off – vacation, sick days, public holidays
• Meaningful stock options – share in the upside you create
• Remote-first setup – work from home anywhere we can employ you
• Flexible hours – own your schedule outside core collaboration blocks
• Family leave – paid maternity, paternity, and caregiver time
• Company retreats – twice-yearly gatherings in inspiring locations