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Member of Technical Staff - SDK
$150K–$350K
San Francisco +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 22, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Build and improve Modal’s SDK and CLI, creating developer-friendly abstractions and primitives for emerging infrastructure needs.
What you'll do
- Improve the developer and agent experience of the SDK and CLI.
- Develop new primitives to support emerging areas of demand.
- Work directly with users and participate in on-call response to production incidents.
What they ask for
- 5+ years developing high-quality Python, JavaScript, or Go applications or libraries used by other developers.
- Strong focus on developer ergonomics and productivity.
- Understanding of async programming, concurrency management, and related pitfalls.
- Able to work in person in the New York office and participate in an on-call rotation.
Nice to have
- Experience building developer tools or SDKs, or maintaining open-source software.
- Understanding of agentic development workflows or familiarity with modern data, ML, and AI tools and workflows.
Pay
$150K – $350K USD base salary
Tools
Python, JavaScript, Go
AI focus
Improve the SDK and CLI experience for developers and agents; familiarity with agentic development workflows and AI tools is a plus.
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