Software Engineer, Platform (runtime)

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Engineering

Software Engineer, Platform (Runtime) at Lovable, an AI-powered software creation platform. The role focuses on the Apps Platform, which handles the backend and hosting layer for generated apps, including runtime, deployment pipeline, and managed services. Responsibilities include owning the app hosting and deployment pipeline, managing composable services, building custom domains infrastructure, driving vendor evaluation, and establishing operational excellence practices. Requires experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure operations, with a deep understanding of multitenant app hosting infrastructure, container orchestration, or edge runtimes, and vendor management experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the app hosting and deployment pipeline — the runtime that serves user applications in production
  2. Manage and operate composable managed services for storage, logging, workflows etc
  3. Build and maintain custom domains infrastructure, ensuring reliable SSL provisioning and DNS management at scale
  4. Drive vendor evaluation, onboarding, and migration as we continue decomposing our platform from a bundled BaaS to best-of-breed individual services
  5. Establish operational excellence practices: monitoring, alerting, incident response, runbooks, and capacity planning across all managed services

Skills

Required

  • Experience building and operating distributed systems
  • Strong background in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure operations
  • Deep understanding of multitenant app hosting infrastructure, container orchestration, or edge runtimes
  • Vendor management experience: evaluating services, negotiating contracts, planning migrations, and holding vendors accountable for SLAs
  • Operational mindset: you think in uptime, latency percentiles, cost-per-request, and blast radius

Nice to have

  • Experience building and operating massively multitenant control planes
  • Experience operating Cloudflare Workers, Pages, R2, or D1 at scale
  • Hands on experience contribution to cloud infrastructure or CNCF projects (kubernetes, worked, envoy)
  • Familiarity with ClickHouse or other columnar databases for log analytics
  • Experience with managed database services (such as Supabase, Neon, AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL etc)
  • Cost optimization experience — you've driven meaningful infrastructure cost reduction

What the JD emphasized

  • deep understanding of multitenant app hosting infrastructure, container orchestration, or edge runtimes
  • Vendor management experience: evaluating services, negotiating contracts, planning migrations, and holding vendors accountable for SLAs
  • Operational mindset: you think in uptime, latency percentiles, cost-per-request, and blast radius