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Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Modal· Engineering
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New York, San FranciscoFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About 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.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed systems for a serverless platform.
  • Contribute to performance engineering and optimization.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
  • Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale
  • Strong cloud skills
  • Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
  • Experience with performance engineering (demonstrated results)
  • Ability to work in-person in NYC or SF office
  • Prior experience with Rust is nice to have, but not required
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Skills

Required:production codedistributed systemscloudoperating systemsperformance engineering
Nice to have:rust
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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High-performance AI infrastructure

Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.

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