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$150,000 – $300,000
Listed on Modal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Modal is building infrastructure for AI workloads at scale and seeks backend engineers to develop developer tools used by major AI companies. You'll work across TypeScript, Python, and ClickHouse to solve production problems in a fast-moving space where requirements shift with new AI workflows.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end
- Comfort working across the stack: TypeScript frontend, Python backend, ClickHouse for data and analytics
- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads
- Strong product instincts focused on customer problems
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
- Ability to make tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale
- Ability to work in-person in NYC or SF office
Nice to have
- Experience with billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software
- Experience with LLM or diffusion model inference and training loads