RUNTIME LABS

8:23:55 PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
UTC

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Runtime Labs develops a secure and time-aware platform that aligns language models with users, building Runtime as a personal memory layer where conversations and events are privately anchored across time.

This is a founding role shaping the core infrastructure of Runtime and related products.

About the Role

  • Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure supporting Runtime, including database systems, storage layers, event pipelines, and API services that scale reliably.
  • Scale and harden systems across Neon, S3, event data collection pipelines, and distributed services to support growing user base and increasing data volumes.
  • Develop primitives for reasoning in time: anchoring model conversations in calendar events, scheduling logic, temporal context retrieval, and integrations with external APIs and services.
  • Build the Runtime Temporal API and foundational systems that enable time-anchored memory, intelligent planning, and context-aware AI interactions.
  • Proactively automate, test, and build internal tools that accelerate engineering velocity, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and developer experience.
  • Collaborate closely with the founder to design and implement durable architecture that balances performance, maintainability, and long-term scalability.

About the Person

  • Cares deeply about clean communication, code hygiene, and documentation—values architectural clarity and systems that are easy to understand and extend.
  • Consistently pushes the frontier of their skills and of model capabilities, staying current with distributed systems, database design, and infrastructure patterns.
  • Works with urgency on daily tasks and patience on developing and adapting the long vision, balancing immediate needs with strategic technical decisions.
  • Avoids shallow optimizations; builds durable infrastructure that provides real, lasting value for users and sets the foundation for future growth.
  • Brings a passion for developing new primitives and innovating with deep technical excellence, particularly around temporal reasoning, event-driven architectures, and scalable data systems.
  • Motivated by building systems that enable powerful user experiences while maintaining simplicity, reliability, and performance at scale.