Staff DevOps Engineer

Runware is building the API layer for the next generation of AI products, providing real-time inference access across models through a flexible API. They focus on performance, reliability, and operational simplicity for AI media generation products.

Location: Remote (UK)

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the infrastructure that powers real-time AI inference across GPU fleets, bare-metal servers, serverless and containerised production systems
• Help evolve Runware’s platform toward more elastic, on-demand infrastructure that can scale quickly with customer traffic and model demand
• Make Runware faster, more reliable and more resilient by improving the critical paths behind our request entrypoints, inference services, queues, storage, load balancers and networking layer
• Automate the hard parts of infrastructure operations, from provisioning and configuration through to CI/CD, deployment safety, progressive rollouts and rapid rollback
• Build the observability backbone for a high-performance AI platform, with the signals needed to spot issues early, understand capacity and fix problems before customers feel them
• Play a leading role in production operations, incident response, debugging and post-incident improvements, helping us turn operational challenges into a stronger platform
• Strengthen the security and compliance foundations of our infrastructure through patching, secrets management, access controls, hardening, auditability, documentation and repeatable operational processes

Requirements

• Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar, with a track record of running production systems at scale
• Deep Linux knowledge and confidence debugging real production issues across networking, storage, performance, services and system behaviour
• Hands-on experience building automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows that make infrastructure safer and easier to operate
• Experience operating high-availability, low-latency or high-throughput platforms where reliability and performance directly affect customers
• Strong networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, proxies, TLS and HTTP
• A calm and pragmatic approach under pressure, with strong communication, good judgement and a bias toward automation over manual toil

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