Staff Engineer, High-Performance Distributed Systems

modal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking experienced engineers to design, build, and maintain its novel high-performance serverless platform. You will write production code, tackle distributed systems at scale, and sharpen latency through performance engineering.

This role requires in-person work in NYC or SF, strong cloud skills, and a solid grasp of Linux kernel and containers. Prior Rust experience is a plus but not required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale.
• Strong cloud skills.
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.).
• Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!).
• Ability to work in-person in our NYC or SF office.
• Prior experience with Rust is nice to have, but not required.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance distributed serverless platform components.
• Collaborate with infra and product teams to optimize for low latency.
• Respond to production incidents and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud

Operating systems fundamentals

Performance engineering

On-call readiness

Tools

Rust

Job description

Modal is seeking experienced engineers to design, build, and maintain its novel high-performance serverless platform. You will write production code, tackle distributed systems at scale, and sharpen latency through performance engineering.

This role requires in-person work in NYC or SF, strong cloud skills, and a solid grasp of Linux kernel and containers. Prior Rust experience is a plus but not required.