Member of Technical Staff - Systems

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New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication"]

Join Modal as a Member of Technical Staff - Systems to design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed serverless platform systems. You will work with low-level OS foundations, cloud infrastructure, and performance engineering to ship production-grade code for a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company with teams across NYC, SF, and Stockholm.

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1 year ago

Member of Technical Staff - Systems

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Job Summary

Join Modal as a Member of Technical Staff - Systems to design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed serverless platform systems. You will work with low-level OS foundations, cloud infrastructure, and performance engineering to ship production-grade code for a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company with teams across NYC, SF, and Stockholm.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform.
  • •Contribute to performance engineering by identifying latency issues and shaving milliseconds off critical paths.
  • •Work with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems at a large scale in production environments.
  • •Collaborate with engineers across locations (NYC, SF, Stockholm) to ship robust features.
  • •Write high-quality production code and participate in on-site activities at the NYC office.

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
  • •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)
  • •Experience with performance engineering
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systemsCloud
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustLinuxContainersCloudServerlessDistributed systems

Company Brief

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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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