Lead, Machines Infrastructure & Platform

Linuxconfig; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking a strong technical lead to guide engineers designing and maintaining our high-performance serverless platform. You will own Modal's machines layer—the fleet of bare metal and cloud hosts used by every Function, Sandbox, and training job—and the control plane that provisions, images, monitors, and repairs them.

You will manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across the stack, including BMCs, firmware, PXE, bootloaders, Linux networking, drivers, and distributed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
• 3+ years of direct people management experience leading engineers.
• Experience operating large fleets of physical hardware at scale or building the control planes that manage them.
• Strong cloud skills.
• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel, drivers, networking, file systems, containers.
• Experience with hardware and colocation providers, including testing and benchmarking.
• Track record of setting technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Willingness to step into the on-call rotation and production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team responsible for Modal's machines layer and the control plane.
• Own the full lifecycle of a machine from hardware acceptance to remediation.
• Manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across the stack.
• Work on BMCs, firmware, PXE, bootloaders, Linux networking, and distributed control-plane services.
• Shape the long-term path further down the stack.

Skills

Production code

People management

Bare metal provisioning

Cloud infrastructure

Linux kernel & networking

Hardware integration testing

On-call incident response

Tools

Go

Job description

Modal is seeking a strong technical lead to guide engineers designing and maintaining our high-performance serverless platform. You will own Modal's machines layer—the fleet of bare metal and cloud hosts used by every Function, Sandbox, and training job—and the control plane that provisions, images, monitors, and repairs them.

You will manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across the stack, including BMCs, firmware, PXE, bootloaders, Linux networking, drivers, and distributed