Staff Software Engineer - Serverless

RunwareNetherlandsRemoteFull-time26 Sept 2026

Runware is seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to technically lead and build its serverless platform, connecting a proprietary high-performance inference engine to a developer-friendly experience. The role involves designing core systems for workload execution, routing, scheduling, isolation, and scaling, with a focus on backend services, distributed systems, and developer platforms. Requires strong engineering fundamentals, ideally in Go, and experience with async processing, queues, and failure handling.

What you'll do

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

What you need

Must-have

GoDistributed SystemsBackend ServicesDeveloper PlatformsWorkload OrchestrationAsync ProcessingQueuesScheduling

Nice-to-have

Serverless PlatformsJob Execution SystemsContainer PlatformsCompute OrchestrationGPU WorkloadsAI/ML InferenceModel ServingBatch Processing

Soft skills

Technical LeadershipClear CommunicationOwnershipJudgementMentoring

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