Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

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Responsibilities

• ▹Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to architect and deploy massive-scale production workloads on Modal
• ▹Lead technical discovery and architecture sessions with prospective and existing customers
• ▹Architect migration paths from existing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) to Modal's serverless platform
• ▹Collaborate with Modal's product and sales teams as both an engineer and a product stakeholder
• ▹Build trusted relationships with technical leaders (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, ML leads)
• ▹Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proof-of-concepts

Requirements

• ▹3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• ▹Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) — compute, storage, networking, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• ▹Familiarity with distributed systems architecture, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• ▹Strong communicator who can go deep on systems architecture and articulate tradeoffs to leadership
• ▹Genuine interest in working directly with customers

Nice to have

• ▹Experience leading large-scale migration efforts
• ▹Open-source contributions or side projects

Soft skills

About the company

Modal is building a new AI infrastructure layer. Customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation. Work is based in the NYC, San Francisco, or Stockholm office.