Member of Technical Staff - Reliability Engineering
Modal LabsNew York, New York, United States
Posted January 19, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Modal Labs is a platform that accelerates development, reduces costs, and scales workloads for data science and machine learning teams using generative AI models and serverless GPUs. Our pay-per-use model ensures efficient resource utilization, allowing users to access powerful computing power on demand without idle costs. Modal offers a wide range of services including LLM inference and fine-tuning, generative model training and inference, and computational biology, among others.
Job Description
Modal provides the infrastructure foundation for AI teams. We're a fast-growing team based out of NYC, SF, and Stockholm, seeking a reliability-focused engineer to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform and customer base.
Requirements
- 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 owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a plus
- Experience with systems safety research (e.g. STAMP) and control theory a plus
- Ability to work in-person in our NYC office