Member of Technical Staff - Systems
At a glance
Highlights
- Fast-growing AI infrastructure startup
- Series B funded at $1.1B valuation
- Opportunity to work on high‑performance serverless platform
Heads up
- On-call rotation required
- In-person work required in NYC
Why this role might suit you
A candidate with strong systems engineering experience will thrive building high‑performance, distributed infrastructure for AI workloads at a rapidly scaling, well‑funded startup.
Skills
About the role
ABOUT US:
Modal provides the infrastructure foundation for AI teams. With instant GPU access, sub-second container startups, and native storage, Modal makes it simple to train models, run batch jobs, and serve low-latency inference. We have thousands of customers who rely on us for production AI workloads, including Lovable, Scale AI, Substack, and Suno.
We're a fast-growing team based out of NYC, SF, and Stockholm. We've hit 9-figure ARR and recently raised a Series B https://modal.com/blog/announcing-our-series-b at a $1.1B valuation. Our investors include Lux Capital https://www.luxcapital.com/, Redpoint Ventures https://www.redpoint.com/, Amplify Partners https://www.amplifypartners.com/, and Elad Gil https://eladgil.com/.
Working at Modal means joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure organizations at an early stage, with many opportunities to grow within the company. 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.
THE ROLE:
We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 cloud skills
- 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 work in-person in our NYC office.
- Prior experience with Rust is nice to have, but not required.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
Compensation
This Backend Engineer role pays $200k-$350k/yr. Within typical range for backend engineer roles in United States.
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