# Member of Technical Staff - Product Engineering at Runta

- Company: Runta
- What the company does: Runta cuts what agents waste, bounds what they can reach, and records everything they did. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://runta.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runta/0c97aa17-fdd3-414c-bd0a-d31989b11092
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/runta-member-of-technical-staff-product-engineering/

## About the role

Our runtime team builds the engine. Our infrastructure team makes it scale. You decide what it feels like to use. Runta does three things: run, govern, record. Underneath, that’s microVMs, snapshot graphs, and audit machinery. Your job is to make sure developers never have to think about any of that. They should think “I can pause my agent, branch it into three versions, and resume the best one,” and the SDK, CLI, docs, and examples you build are what makes that thought possible.

## What they're looking for

- You’ve built developer-facing product surfaces: an SDK, a CLI, a public API, or a devtools product people chose to use
- Exceptional API taste, with opinions you can defend about what to expose, what to hide, and what to name things
- You write clearly. Docs, examples, and error messages are product surfaces here, not chores
- You can read the systems underneath: you don’t need to build a hypervisor, but you need to understand what one is, so your abstractions don’t lie
- You genuinely enjoy solving user problems and get satisfaction from someone else’s “oh, that was easy”
- Nice to have: open source maintainership with a reputation for good DX, developer advocacy or technical writing experience, experience building with AI agents or LLM APIs

Tags: Engineering