Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)

Modal · San Francisco · $150K – $300K · Other

Posted 2026-08-05

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THE ROLE:

We're looking for strong backend engineers who love building a developer tools used by the largest AI companies in the world. You’ll be building for things at scale, but also for new AI workflows that change every day.

REQUIREMENTS:

- Experience building and shipping modern web applications end-to-end. We care more about what you’ve built than how many years you’ve been building.

- Comfort working across the stack: TypeScript on the frontend, Python services on the backend, and ClickHouse for data and analytics.

- Deep knowledge of observability tools and patterns used for large-scale workloads such as custom sandboxes, training and inference for large language (LLM) and diffusion models.

- Experience with at least one of: billing/payments systems, B2B SaaS tooling, or enterprise software, or LLM / diffusion models inference and training loads.

- Strong product instincts; you think about customer problems, not just tickets.

- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

- Ability to make good tradeoffs between shipping fast and building for scale.

- Ability to work in-person in our NYC or SF office.

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