Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Modal Modal · Data AI · New York, NY · Engineering

The role focuses on building and maintaining the high-performance systems that power Modal's serverless AI infrastructure, including GPU access, container startups, and inference serving. It requires strong experience in distributed systems, cloud, and low-level OS foundations, with an emphasis on performance engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform
  2. participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

Skills

Required

  • distributed systems
  • cloud computing
  • operating systems
  • performance engineering
  • production incident response

Nice to have

  • Rust

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
  • Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale (the more battle scars, the better)
  • Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
  • Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!)
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents