Member of Technical Staff - SDK

The role

This person will improve the developer and agent experience of the SDK and CLI. They will develop new primitives to meet demand for new areas arising from industry transformation.

What you will do

• Improve the developer and agent experience of our SDK and CLI
• Develop new primitives to meet demand for entirely new areas that arise as a result of the ongoing industry transformation
• Participate in our on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing high-quality Python, JavaScript, or Go applications or libraries where the code is used or interacted with by other developers
• Strong code-as-product sense that manifests as a focus on developer ergonomics and productivity
• Understand async programming, concurrency management, and their pitfalls
• High level of customer empathy
• Good communication skills
• Openness to working directly with our users to help solve their problems
• Able to participate in our on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
• Able to work in person in our New York office

Nice to have

• Experience building developer tools or SDKs
• Experience maintaining open-source software
• Good understanding of agentic development workflows
• Familiarity with modern data, ML, and AI tools and workflows

About the company

Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. Customers include companies like Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno.