Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

The role

This person will improve reliability and scale the platform, customer base, and team. They will identify architectural changes, implement operational processes, and operate infrastructure like Kubernetes, Postgres, and Redis.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
• 2+ years of on-call experience for critical production services
• Strong cloud skills and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler cloud
• Familiar with autoscaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale
• Operated databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure at scale
• Able to work in person in 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
• AWS preferred

About the company

Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. The company has passed $1B in annualized run rate.