Modal
Systems Engineering Manager
$275K–$330K
New York · Manager · Full-time · Posted Feb 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
About the job
Leads a team building infrastructure for Modal’s serverless GPU platform, combining technical contributions and people management.
What you'll do
- Recruit, coach, and develop cloud platform engineers while setting performance expectations and fostering team ownership.
- Guide technical decisions and delivery, setting priorities and standards for reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Coordinate with product and engineering, communicate progress and tradeoffs, and lead major incident response and follow-up improvements.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Track record building high-performance distributed systems at scale and strong cloud infrastructure background.
- Deep knowledge of low-level OS foundations, such as Linux kernel, file systems, and containers.
- Proficiency in a systems-level language: Rust, C, C++, or Java.
Pay
$275K – $330K USD base salary
Tools
Linux kernel, Rust, C, C++, Java
AI focus
Builds infrastructure for a serverless GPU platform that supports AI workloads.
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