# Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

Hiring organization: [Modal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/modal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/3a8e1678-186d-4676-b5d9-c2121ddb0acb

Listed on Modal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 220000 – 300000 USD per year

## Summary

Modal is hiring a platform engineer to build and operate the infrastructure layer supporting their AI compute service, used by companies like DoorDash and Suno. You'll design for reliability and performance at scale, lead incident response, and define operational processes for a rapidly growing cloud platform.

_Our summary, not Modal's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis

## Required

- 5+ years writing production code
- 2+ years on-call for critical systems
- Strong cloud skills with deep hyperscaler experience
- Familiarity with auto scaling and capacity planning at scale
- Experience operating databases, monitoring, and infrastructure at scale
- Work in-person at NYC or Stockholm office

## Nice to have

- Experience scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes
- Background in systems safety research (e.g., STAMP)
- Control theory knowledge

Apply on Modal's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/84467a68-6876-4730-9d80-6c6f3d0c2d71/application