Staff Reliability Engineer — Scale Cloud Infrastructure

EuroPython; Town of Sweden (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking a reliability-focused engineer to shape architecture for scalable, resilient cloud services. You will lead efforts to enhance deployment, upgrade processes, and incident response as part of a growing team.

You should bring extensive production code experience, on-call practices, and strong cloud capabilities (AWS preferred). The role requires working in NYC or Stockholm offices and advancing our reliability culture at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
• 2+ years of on-call experience for critical production services.
• Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler cloud (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale.
• Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, at scale
• Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identifying architectural changes to improve reliability and performance.
• Fostering a culture of reliability across Modal's engineering organization.
• Defining and implementing operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, etc.
• Participating in on-call rotations, and responding to production incidents.

Skills

Production code

On-call experience

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Reliability culture

Tools

CI/CD

Monitoring

Job description

Modal is seeking a reliability-focused engineer to shape architecture for scalable, resilient cloud services. You will lead efforts to enhance deployment, upgrade processes, and incident response as part of a growing team.

You should bring extensive production code experience, on-call practices, and strong cloud capabilities (AWS preferred). The role requires working in NYC or Stockholm offices and advancing our reliability culture at scale.