Developer Experience Engineer

RunPod is pioneering the future of AI and machine learning, offering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications. Founded in 2022, we are a rapidly growing, well-funded company with a remote-first organization spread globally. Our mission is to empower innovators and enterprises to unlock AI's true potential, driving technology and transforming industries. Join us as we shape the future of AI.

The Developer Relations Team sits within the Product Team and ensures that we maintain a close connection between the RunPod community and our product. This team is dedicated to optimizing every aspect of the external developer's interaction with our products, aligning closely with RunPod's vision to be the compute backbone for AI/ML workloads at scale.

Developer Experience Engineers focus on identifying developer needs or pain points and building solutions to make their RunPod experience great. You’ll create tools, sample projects, templates, demos, and workflows to enhance the developer experience across our platform. Additionally, you’ll maintain our open source repositories and ensure that issues and pull requests are responded to in a timely manner. In this role, you’ll help shape RunPod’s developer experience and ensure that developers have the resources they need to succeed.

Responsibilities:

• Identify developer pain points, workflow optimizations, and onboarding improvements and work with the Product team to design solutions.
• Design and implement tooling, workflows, and sample projects to improve RunPod’s developer experience.
• Participate in design and architectural discussions with the Product team to ensure that developers are represented in new features and services.
• Maintain open source repositories and documentation for tools, RunPod templates, and code samples.
• Respond to issues and pull requests on open source repositories in a timely manner.

Requirements:

• To be successful in this role, you’ll need to understand and take ownership of developers’ pain points as if they were your own.
• 6+ years of software development experience in an internal tooling, developer tooling, or developer experience role.
• Strong understanding of a major programming language and its ecosystem (Python, Go, or Rust preferred)
• Experience creating images and deploying with Docker
• Experience working with Product teams to triage customer issues and create requirements for projects

Preferred:

• Experience with AI and ML tooling and frameworks
• Active in one or more AI and ML communities
• Experience with RunPod

What You’ll Receive:

• The competitive base pay for this position ranges from $160,000 - $200,000 depending on location. Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay may include your specific job related knowledge, skills and experience
• Stock options
• The flexibility of remote work with an inclusive, collaborative team.
• An opportunity to grow with a company that values innovation and user-centric design.
• Generous vacation policy to ensure work-life harmony and well-being.
• Contribute to a company with a global impact based in the US, Canada, and Europe.

RunPod is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and upholding the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms enhances our team. As an equal opportunity employer, RunPod is committed to creating an inclusive workforce at every level. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.