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$150,000 – $270,000
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 an engineer to build security into their AI infrastructure platform, protecting multi-tenant workloads across container orchestration, identity management, and cloud systems. This is a hands-on role designing and implementing isolation mechanisms and secure primitives rather than managing compliance or policy.
Our summary, not Modal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
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What they ask for
Required
- Experience securing cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems in production
- Background in infrastructure, backend, or security engineering
- Experience in multi-tenant or high-scale environments
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration systems
- Experience designing or securing isolation mechanisms in multi-tenant systems
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, and service identity models
- Experience with secrets management and secure credential handling
- Strong foundation in networking and access boundaries
- Builder mentality with hands-on design and implementation
- Pragmatic approach to security in fast-moving environments
Nice to have
- Experience with sandboxing or runtime isolation technologies like gVisor, Firecracker, or seccomp
- Familiarity with kernel-level or low-level isolation primitives
- Production experience securing Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
- Background in developer infrastructure, compute platforms, or multi-tenant systems