Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Position Overview

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. Companies like Suno, Lovable, and Substack rely on Modal to move from prototype to production without the burden of managing infrastructure. 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

• Building and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up Modal's serverless platform

Requirements & Skills

• 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