Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Identify architectural changes to improve reliability and performance
• ▹Foster a culture of reliability across Modal's engineering organization
• ▹Define and implement operational processes such as deployments and upgrades
• ▹Operate systems like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, etc.
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents

Requirements

• ▹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

Nice to have

• ▹Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes
• ▹Experience with systems safety research (e.g. STAMP) and control theory

Soft skills

About the company

Modal is a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company. Customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation.