Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

📋 Description

• 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.
• Operating systems like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, etc.
• Participating in on-call rotations, and responding to production incidents.

🎯 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 operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, 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 or Stockholm offices.