# Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend) 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: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be84fb79e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modal-member-of-technical-staff-product-backend/

## About the role

We're looking for strong backend engineers who love building a developer tools used by the largest AI companies in the world. You’ll be building for things at scale, but also for new AI workflows that change every day.

## What they're looking for

- Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end. We care more about what you’ve built than how many years you’ve been building
- Comfort 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, training and inference for large language (LLM) and diffusion models
- Experience with at least one of: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software, or LLM / diffusion models inference and training loads
- Strong product instincts, you think about customer problems, not just tickets
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

Tags: Engineering