Modal
Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)
San Francisco. Posted 10 months ago
The role
Backend engineers will build developer tools for large AI companies. You will work on large-scale systems and new AI workflows.
What you will do
- Build developer tools used by large AI companies
- Build for things at scale and new AI workflows
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Respond to production incidents
Required qualifications
- Built and shipped modern web applications end-to-end
- Comfortable working across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics
- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns used for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes and training and inference for large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models
- Experience with at least one of the following: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion model inference and training workloads
- Strong product instincts
- Able to make good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale
About the company
Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. The company has passed $1B in annualized run rate.