Member of Technical Staff - Storage
Modal Labs · San Francisco · Stockholm · New York
CHECKED 16H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$250k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build distributed object storage backing every image, volume, and checkpoint.
- Make cold starts feel local with caching, preloading and P2P sharing.
- Own durability and cost for hundreds of petabytes across clouds and CDN.
Ideal candidate
A seasoned distributed systems engineer who loves low-level performance and operating petabyte-scale storage. You thrive owning durability and latency end-to-end and jumping into on-call to keep critical infrastructure fast.
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 their consistency, throughput, and cost characteristics
- Strong knowledge of low-level OS foundations including Linux kernel, file systems, page cache, and containers
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
Lab profile
About Modal Labs
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI workloads with instant GPU compute.
What they build
- Serverless GPU cloud platform
- Python SDK
- Cloud sandboxes
Known for
- Systems engineering at scale
- ML performance optimization
- Developer-first experience