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Role Description

We're looking for a Data Engineer to build and scale the data infrastructure that powers Runway's AI research and business intelligence. You'll own critical data pipelines spanning production databases, analytics warehouses, and large-scale ML training datasets. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, ML infrastructure, and analytics—you'll enable both world-class research and data-driven business decisions.

You'll work on challenging problems at scale:

• Managing billions of rows of multimodal training data
• Building CDC streams from production systems
• Optimizing vector databases for ML workflows
• Creating the foundational data layer that the entire company relies on

A peek at our technical stack:

• LanceDB for vector storage and dataset versioning with multimodal training data
• ClickHouse as our analytics warehouse receiving CDC streams from production Postgres via AWS Kinesis
• BigQuery for training run logs and evaluation results
• Ray for large-scale distributed data processing on managed Kubernetes clusters
• dbt for standardized transformations
• Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring
• Terraform for infrastructure management

This is an opportunity to bring best practices and technical leadership as we mature our data infrastructure to support rapidly growing ML training and research needs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience in data engineering
• Strong knowledge of Python
• Experience with data quality, deduplication, and cleaning at scale
• Comfortable working with cloud storage (S3) and managing large datasets
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/CDC pipelines at scale
• Strong SQL skills and experience with multiple database systems (Postgres, columnar databases like ClickHouse/Redshift)
• Humility and open mindedness; at Runway we love to learn from one another

Requirements

• Experience with one or more frameworks for large-scale data processing (e.g. Spark, Ray, etc)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their data service offerings
• Knowledge of data privacy and data security best practices
• Experience with business intelligence and visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Metabase, or similar)
• Experience in a high-growth startup environment or similar fast-paced setting

Benefits

• Salary range: $240,000 - $290,000
• Commitment to creating a space where employees can bring their full selves to work
• Equal opportunity to succeed regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status