Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Modal. New York · full-time · $220,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Find platform architecture changes that raise service reliability and improve performance
- Build reliability practices across engineering so teams can operate services more consistently
- Set up operating procedures for platform deployments and upgrades
- Run Kubernetes, Postgres and Redis infrastructure, and join on-call rotations to handle production incidents
What you bring
- At least five years writing production software to a high standard
- Two or more years responding to on-call duties for critical production services
- Strong cloud skills, including deep experience with a major cloud provider such as AWS
- Hands-on experience with autoscaling, fleet operations and capacity planning at scale
- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD and other infrastructure at scale
Who this fits
This senior platform engineering role suits a systems-focused engineer who enjoys improving reliability and helping teams work faster at scale. You must be able to work in person from the New York City or Stockholm office.
From the employer
About Us:
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and 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, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
Our customers include category-defining companies like Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They 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.
We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation.
Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
The Role:
At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical production systems. As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform, customer base, and team.
This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines, and thrive on making others move faster at scale.
What You'll Work On:
Identify architectural changes to improve reliability and performance
Foster a culture of reliability across Modal’s engineering organization
Define and implement operational processes such as deployments and upgrades
Operate infrastructure like Kubernetes, Postgres, and Redis
Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents
You May Be a Fit If:
You have 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
You have 2+ years of on-call experience for critical production services
You have strong cloud skills and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler cloud (AWS preferred)
You’re familiar with autoscaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale
You’ve operated databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure at scale
You’re able to work in person in our NYC or Stockholm offices
Nice-to-Have:
Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes
Experience with systems safety research (e.g., STAMP) and control theory
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