# Member of Technical Staff - Systems 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: 2024-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/9b33ebe7-e829-4f03-97ba-5c94dbd7daf6
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modal-member-of-technical-staff-systems/

## About the role

We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale (the more battle scars, the better)
- Strong cloud skills
- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
- Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!)
- Ability to work in-person in our NYC or SF office

Tags: Engineering