Member of Technical Staff - Machines

The role

You will design, build, and maintain high-performance systems for a serverless platform. You will work on the machines layer, including bare-metal and cloud hosts and the control plane that manages them.

What you will do

• Automate remediation of unhealthy machines to maximize uptime and minimize operator toil
• Automate integration of new CPU, GPU, and storage servers into the fleet
• Monitor network health and reliability across many datacenters
• Standardize bare-metal network configuration
• Automate hardware acceptance testing and benchmarking
• Build custom network bootloader, machine image pipeline, and kernel and firmware management

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
• Experience operating fleets of physical hardware or building control planes that manage them
• Strong cloud skills
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations
• Effective at debugging across layers
• Willing to step into on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

Nice to have

• Experience with GPUs and the NVIDIA software stack in production
• Prior experience with Go

About the company

Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. The company has passed $1B in annualized run rate and includes creators of popular open-source projects.