Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Storage

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San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 270,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","People management","On-call incident response","Architectural decision-making"]

Lead a team of 3–8 engineers building and operating Modal’s distributed object storage system that powers every container image, volume, and checkpoint. Set technical direction for storage primitives and roadmap from petabyte-scale garbage collection and active-active replication to rate limiting and capacity planning. Stay hands-on across local NVMe caching, garbage collection, and distributed blob storage while guiding observability, automation, and on-call practices.

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Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Storage

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Job Summary

Lead a team of 3–8 engineers building and operating Modal’s distributed object storage system that powers every container image, volume, and checkpoint. Set technical direction for storage primitives and roadmap from petabyte-scale garbage collection and active-active replication to rate limiting and capacity planning. Stay hands-on across local NVMe caching, garbage collection, and distributed blob storage while guiding observability, automation, and on-call practices.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Guide engineers designing, building, and maintaining Modal’s novel high-performance serverless storage systems.
  • •Own the roadmap for core storage problems including petabyte-scale garbage collection, active-active replication, and protective rate limiting.
  • •Set technical direction for storage primitives that other teams build on, balancing durability, latency, throughput, and cost.
  • •Manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across local disk/page cache and distributed storage operations.
  • •Lead observability, automation, and on-call practices to keep the system healthy as it scales.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 270,000 - 330,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years writing high-quality production code.
  • •3+ years of direct people management experience leading engineers through planning, growth, and performance.
  • •Experience building high-performance distributed storage or caching systems at large scale.
  • •Strong cloud skills, including deep familiarity with object storage (S3 or similar) and CDNs.
  • •Strong OS fundamentals (Linux kernel, file systems, page cache, containers) and experience with replication/consistency and operating storage at petabyte scale.
Experience:7+ years
Skills:Technical leadershipPeople managementOn-call incident responseArchitectural decision-making
Tech Stack:Distributed object storageS3Object storageCDNsLinux kernelFile systemsPage cacheContainersNVMeDistributed blob storageGarbage collectionActive-active replicationRate limitingMulti-regionMulti-cloudRustData migrationContent addressing

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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