Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Machines

📋 Description

• Lead the team responsible for Modal's machines layer: the fleet of bare metal and cloud hosts that
• Own the full lifecycle of a machine, from accepting and benchmarking new hardware from a growing
• Manage a team of 3–8 engineers while staying hands-on across the stack which involves BMCs
• Shape the long-term path further down the stack.
• Step into the on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
• 3+ years of direct people management experience, ideally leading a team of engineers through
• Experience operating large fleets of physical hardware at scale (bare metal provisioning, BMC/IPMI
• Strong cloud skills
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, drivers, networking, file
• Experience working with hardware and colocation providers, including hardware acceptance testing

🎁 Benefits

• Experience with GPUs and the NVIDIA software stack (drivers, health monitoring, RDMA/NVLink) in