Staff Engineer, Developer Tools & SDKs

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking strong engineers to build software loved by developers. You will enhance the SDK/CLI, create new primitives, and contribute to the evolving AI infrastructure layer that powers production-grade, low-latency deployments.

The role emphasizes developer ergonomics, async programming, and close collaboration with users. This is a remote role, with a requirement to be located in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing high-quality Python, JavaScript, or Go applications or libraries.
• Strong code-as-product sense focused on ergonomics and productivity.
• Understand async programming and concurrency pitfalls.
• High level of customer empathy and communication skills.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and production incidents.
• Willingness to work in New York office in person.

Responsibilities

• Improve the developer and agent experience of our SDK and CLI.
• Develop new primitives to meet demand for entirely new areas that arise as a result of the ongoing industry transformation.

Skills

Python/JS/Go experience

Developer ergonomics

Async programming

Customer empathy

On-call readiness

In-person NYC (onsite)

Job description

Modal is seeking strong engineers to build software loved by developers. You will enhance the SDK/CLI, create new primitives, and contribute to the evolving AI infrastructure layer that powers production-grade, low-latency deployments.

The role emphasizes developer ergonomics, async programming, and close collaboration with users. This is a remote role, with a requirement to be located in the United States.