Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

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New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: []

Join Modal as a Member of Technical Staff focused on Reliability Engineering. You will be the first reliability-focused engineer, identifying architectural changes to boost reliability, designing operational processes for deployments and rollbacks, joining on-call rotations, building monitoring, and collaborating with core engineering across NYC, SF, and Stockholm to scale and improve service quality.

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7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

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Job Summary

Join Modal as a Member of Technical Staff focused on Reliability Engineering. You will be the first reliability-focused engineer, identifying architectural changes to boost reliability, designing operational processes for deployments and rollbacks, joining on-call rotations, building monitoring, and collaborating with core engineering across NYC, SF, and Stockholm to scale and improve service quality.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Key Responsibilities

  • •Identify architectural changes to improve reliability, performance and availability.
  • •Foster a culture of reliability across Modal’s engineering organization.
  • •Design and implement key operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, rollbacks, and postmortem review.
  • •Join a core engineering team and participate in on-call rotation, responding to production incidents.
  • •Build monitoring systems that ensure the highest quality service for our customers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 350,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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 owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a plus.
Experience:5+ yearsAI infrastructureCloud
Tech Stack:AWSKubernetesAuto scalingFleet managementCapacity planning

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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