Member of Technical Staff - Systems

Highlights

• Design and maintain high-performance systems behind Modal's serverless platform.
• Enable instant GPU access and sub-second container starts at scale.
• Power low-latency inference, fine-tuning, and sandboxes for leading AI teams.

What they offer

• Equity

Ideal candidate

A battle-tested systems builder who obsesses over milliseconds and loves deep infrastructure challenges. You thrive owning high-scale distributed systems and keeping production reliable.

Requirements

• 5+ years writing high-quality production code
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at large scale
• Strong cloud skills
• Strong knowledge of low-level OS foundations including Linux kernel, filesystems, and containers
• Experience with performance engineering
• Ability to work in-person in NYC or SF office
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents