Systems Engineering Manager

The role

This Engineering Manager will lead a group of highly experienced engineers. You will spend roughly half your time on technical contribution and half on people management to tackle complex systems challenges in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization.

What you will do

• Lead a group of highly experienced engineers
• Spend roughly half your time on technical contribution
• Spend roughly half your time on people management
• Set direction
• Remove blockers
• Foster a strong engineering culture

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of industry experience
• 3 years in a leadership role
• Built high-performance distributed systems at a large scale
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
• Proficient in systems-level languages such as Rust, C, C++, or Java
• Experienced engineering leader who thrives close to the work and enjoys building alongside your team when needed
• Earn trust through technical depth
• Communicate with clarity
• Help great engineers move fast and make sound decisions
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Pragmatic, calm under pressure, and focused on impact

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.