Member of Technical Staff - Storage

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San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Problem-solving","Incident response"]

Design, build, and maintain Modal’s distributed object storage layer for a serverless GPU platform. Own durability and cost at petabyte scale, working on caching, preloading, and peer-to-peer sharing to reduce cold starts and hide object-store latency. Tackle streaming and batch replication, garbage collection over billions of objects, and collaborate across the stack from local NVMe and page cache to distributed blob storage.

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Member of Technical Staff - Storage

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain Modal’s distributed object storage layer for a serverless GPU platform. Own durability and cost at petabyte scale, working on caching, preloading, and peer-to-peer sharing to reduce cold starts and hide object-store latency. Tackle streaming and batch replication, garbage collection over billions of objects, and collaborate across the stack from local NVMe and page cache to distributed blob storage.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain the distributed object storage system that underpins container images, volumes, and checkpoints.
  • •Design caching, preloading, and peer-to-peer layers to hide object-store latency and reduce cold starts.
  • •Own durability and cost at petabyte scale across replication and garbage collection.
  • •Implement streaming and batch replication between origins and garbage collection over billions of objects.
  • •Work across the stack from local disk/page cache to distributed blob storage and storage evolution.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 300,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
  • •Experience building high-performance distributed storage or caching systems at large scale.
  • •Deep familiarity with object storage (S3 or similar), CDNs, and related consistency, throughput, and cost characteristics.
  • •Strong knowledge of low-level OS foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, page cache, containers).
  • •Willingness to participate in on-call and respond to production incidents.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipProblem-solvingIncident response
Tech Stack:S3Object storageCDNLinux kernelFile systemsPage cacheContainersNVMeRust

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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