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$220,000 – $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 seeking a platform engineer to help rebuild cloud infrastructure for AI workloads at scale. You'll focus on reliability improvements, operational processes, and incident response across a rapidly growing system serving companies like DoorDash and Ramp.
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years writing production code
- 2+ years on-call experience for critical services
- Strong cloud skills with deep familiarity of at least one hyperscaler (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale
- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and infrastructure at scale
- Ability to work in-person in NYC or Stockholm
Nice to have
- Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes
- Experience with systems safety research (e.g., STAMP)
- Experience with control theory