The opportunity
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
What you'll do
+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
+ years of direct people management experience, ideally leading a team of: engineers through project planning, growth, and performance conversations
Experience building high-performance distributed storage or caching systems: at a large scale (the more challenges you've worked through, the better)
Strong cloud skills, including deep familiarity with object storage (S3 or: similar), CDNs, and their consistency, throughput, and cost characteristics
Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel,: file systems, page cache, containers, etc.)
Experience with replication, content addressing, and consistency models in multi-region or multi-cloud systems
What they're looking for
- Experience operating storage systems at scale (petabyte-scale datasets,: high-throughput read/write paths, large-scale garbage collection or data migration), including owning cost and capacity planning
- Track record of setting technical direction and driving architectural: decisions across a team, and of building the primitives other teams depend on
- Willingness to step into the thick of it with our on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
- Experience with data engineering at petabyte-scale.
