engineering
Posted Jan 19Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
at Modal
New York, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- ABOUT US: AI needs a new infrastructure layer.
- AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
- They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
- Responsibilities include: - Identifying architectural changes to improve reliability and performance. - Fostering a culture of reliability across Modal’s engineering organization. - Defining and implementing operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, etc. - Operating systems like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, etc. - Participating in on-call rotations, and responding to production incidents.
- experience for critical production services. - Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler cloud (AWS preferred). - Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale. -
- Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a plus. -
- Experience with systems safety research (e.g. STAMP) and control theory a plus. - Ability to work in-person in our NYC or Stockholm offices.
Experience
- REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of
- experience writing high-quality production code. - 2+ years of on-call
Benefits
- We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
Contact
- Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable https://modal.com/blog/lovable-case-study, Ramp https://modal.com/blog/how-ramp-built-a-full-context-background-coding-agent-on-modal, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno.
- We recently raised a $355M Series C https://modal.com/blog/modal-series-c at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures.
- Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn,Luigi https://github.com/spotify/luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
Additional details
- Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud.
- Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade.
- THE ROLE: At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical production systems.
- As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform, customer base, and our team.
- This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines, and thrive from making others move faster at scale.
- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, at scale -