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Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)

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7 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship modern web applications and developer tools used by major AI companies.
  • Develop TypeScript frontend functionality and Python backend services.
  • Work with ClickHouse for data and analytics.
  • Build and operate systems supporting large-scale AI workloads, including training and inference.
  • Contribute to product decisions and make tradeoffs between speed and scalability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.

Requirements

  • Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end.
  • Comfort working across TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics.
  • Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads, including custom sandboxes and LLM or diffusion model training and inference.
  • Experience with billing or payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM or diffusion model inference and training loads.
  • Strong product instincts and focus on customer problems.
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
  • Ability to balance shipping quickly with building for scale.
  • Ability to work in person in the NYC or San Francisco office.

Benefits

  • Opportunities to grow within an early-stage, fast-growing AI infrastructure company.
  • Work in person from the NYC or San Francisco office.

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About Modal

51-200 employees

Customers rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. Every era of computing came with new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't serve: mainframes, databases, the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice. The window to build is open right now.