Member of Technical Staff - Systems

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Stockholm
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

Design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed systems that power a serverless AI platform. Collaborate with peers to craft scalable infrastructure, optimize performance (shaving milliseconds where possible), and contribute high-quality production code. In-person collaboration in the Stockholm office with a focus on low-level OS foundations, cloud skills, and Rust-friendly environments.

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8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Systems

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed systems that power a serverless AI platform. Collaborate with peers to craft scalable infrastructure, optimize performance (shaving milliseconds where possible), and contribute high-quality production code. In-person collaboration in the Stockholm office with a focus on low-level OS foundations, cloud skills, and Rust-friendly environments.
Location: Stockholm
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain the novel, high-performance systems that make up the serverless platform.
  • •Write and contribute high-quality production code and system architecture decisions.
  • •Focus on performance engineering and optimization, sharing concrete examples of latency improvements.
  • •Collaborate with team members to ensure in-person coordination from the Stockholm office.
  • •Leverage strong cloud skills and low-level OS knowledge to advance Modal’s infrastructure.

Key Requirements

  • •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
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systemsCloud computingAI infrastructure
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:RustLinuxContainersCloudServerlessDistributed systems

Company Brief

Modal
Provides a serverless, high-performance cloud platform for AI, ML, and data workloads — offering instant autoscaling, elastic GPU access, and developer-first tooling to run inference, training, and batch jobs at scale.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2021
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