# Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering at Modal

- Company: Modal
- What the company does: Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and AI Grant.
- Company website: https://modal.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/84467a68-6876-4730-9d80-6c6f3d0c2d71
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modal-member-of-technical-staff-platform-engineering/

## About the role

At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical production systems. As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform, customer base, and our team. This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines, and thrive from making others move faster at scale. Responsibilities include:

## What they're looking for

- 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 (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale
- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, at scale
- Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a plus

Tags: Engineering