almost 2 years ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain novel, high-performance systems powering Modal’s serverless platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience writing high-quality production code.
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at large scale.
- Strong cloud skills.
- Strong knowledge of low-level operating-system foundations, including the Linux kernel, file systems, and containers.
- Experience with performance engineering.
- Ability to work in person in the NYC office.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
- Prior Rust experience is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- In-person work in the NYC office is required.
- Participation in an on-call rotation and response to production incidents are required.
About Modal
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.