The opportunity
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of highly experienced engineers building the infrastructure that powers Modal's serverless GPU platform. This is a hands-on leadership role — expect to split your time between technical contribution and people management depending on what the team needs.
What you'll do
Recruit, hire, and grow a high-performing team of cloud platform engineers;: run regular 1:1s focused on coaching, feedback, and career growth.
Set clear performance expectations, hold a high bar, and build an environment: where engineers do their best work.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive day-to-day technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
Translate the infrastructure roadmap into clear team priorities and: milestones, and hold execution against them.
Establish standards for reliability, performance, and operational excellence;: ensure the team owns projects end-to-end, from spec through production.
What they're looking for
- + years of industry experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role
- Track record building high-performance distributed systems at scale
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of low-level OS foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
- Proficiency in a systems-level language (Rust, C, C++, or Java)
