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$150,000 – $300,000
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What this role is
Modal is hiring a backend engineer to build infrastructure for AI workloads at scale. This role suits experienced developers who want to work on developer tools serving major AI companies, with responsibilities spanning observability, payments systems, and production incident response.
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What they ask for
Required
- End-to-end experience building and shipping modern web applications
- Comfort working across TypeScript frontend, Python backend, and ClickHouse analytics
- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns for large-scale workloads
- Experience with billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, enterprise software, or LLM/diffusion model inference and training
- Strong product thinking and customer problem awareness
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation for production incidents
- Ability to balance shipping speed with scalability
- Ability to work in-person at NYC or SF office