Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)
At a glance
Highlights
- Fast-growing AI infrastructure company
- Series B funded at $1.1B valuation
- Opportunity to work on large‑scale AI workloads
Heads up
- On-call rotation required
- In-person work required in NYC office
Why this role might suit you
The role offers a chance to join a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure team, building backend systems that support large language model workloads. Candidates with strong full‑stack experience and a product mindset will thrive in this fast‑paced, on‑site environment.
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're looking for strong backend engineers who love building a developer tools used by the largest AI companies in the world. You’ll be building for things at scale, but also for new AI workflows that change every day.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end. We care more about what you’ve built than how many years you’ve been building.
- Comfort working across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics.
- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns used for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes, training and inference for large language (LLM) and diffusion models.
- Experience with at least one of: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software, or LLM / diffusion models inference and training loads.
- Strong product instincts; you think about customer problems, not just tickets.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
- Ability to make good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale.
- Ability to work in-person in our NYC office.
Compensation
This Backend Engineer role pays $150k-$300k/yr. Within typical range for backend engineer roles in United States.
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