Systems Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead a team of engineers building the infrastructure for a serverless GPU platform. This hands-on leadership role involves technical contribution, people management, and setting technical direction.

What you will do

• Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers
• Run regular 1:1s focused on coaching, feedback, and career growth
• Set performance expectations and build an engineering environment
• Drive technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
• Translate the infrastructure roadmap into team priorities and milestones
• Establish standards for reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Partner with product and engineering to align infrastructure work with business priorities
• Serve as the escalation point for major incidents

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience
• 3+ years in a leadership role
• Track record of building high-performance distributed systems at scale
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of low-level OS foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
• Proficient in a systems-level language (Rust, C, C++, or Java)

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.