Modular

Platform Engineer, Data

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1 month ago
Los Altos, CA, USAEntry Level

Base Salary

$120k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Scale Modular’s data stack for its next phase of growth.
  • Design, build, and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
  • Define instrumentation requirements with product and engineering teams for new product surfaces and customer environments.
  • Build integrations connecting product, GTM, and Finance data for revenue, pipeline, and unit-economics visibility.
  • Contribute to data governance and best practices to create a consistent and trusted data foundation.

Requirements

  • 0–2+ years of experience as a software engineer working heavily with data systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or Java and solid proficiency in SQL.
  • Familiarity with software development lifecycles and version control systems such as Git and GitHub.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Familiarity with distributed processing or messaging systems such as Spark, Kafka, or Flink.
  • Knowledge of containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Helpful qualifications include ETL/ELT, streaming or batch systems, orchestration frameworks, data lake and warehouse architectures, infrastructure as code with Pulumi, product telemetry, usage-based billing, instrumentation design, and data observability or quality tools.
  • Alignment with Modular’s core company cultural values.

Benefits

  • Benefits may include healthcare coverage, retirement and savings programs, employee stock purchase opportunities, paid time off, wellbeing resources, family support programs, and learning and development opportunities.
  • The role includes RSU grants, annual target bonus, equity, and other benefits; total compensation includes equity as a significant component.
  • Regular team onsites and local meetups are organized in Los Altos and other cities.
  • The role is based at the Los Altos, California headquarters with a minimum of three days per week onsite.
  • Travel two to four times per year is expected for all roles.

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Modular

201-500 employees

Modular builds an AI developer platform for training and especially inference/serving, centered on the MAX runtime and the Mojo programming language. Its tools accelerate and deploy models from frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow on CPUs and GPUs, for teams running on cloud or on‑prem infrastructure. Founded in 2022, the company operates remote‑first with an office in Los Altos, CA, and sells a commercial platform and enterprise support to organizations productionizing generative and classical ML.

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