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Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

Modal· Engineering
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New York$220k - $300kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Role focused on improving reliability and scalability of Modal's platform as a cloud infrastructure provider, with emphasis on operating systems, on-call reliability, and architectural improvements.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
  • 2+ years of on-call 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 operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, 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.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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