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AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure
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couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company
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that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different,
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except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the
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layer underneath it is open right now.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp,
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Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access,
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sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve
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low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes
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at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General
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Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold
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since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,
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Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and
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experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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**The Role:**
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We’re looking for strong engineers with experience building developer tools that users love to work with. Our ideal candidate is someone with a demonstrated drive to build beautiful interfaces that enhance developer productivity.
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We’re looking for strong engineers with experience building developer tools
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that users love to work with. Our ideal candidate is someone with a
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demonstrated drive to build beautiful interfaces that enhance developer
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productivity.
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requirements:
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- 5+ years of experience developing high-quality Python libraries with broad user-bases, ideally including some experience maintaining open-source software.
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- 5+ years of experience developing high-quality Python libraries with broad
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user-bases, ideally including some experience maintaining open-source
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software.
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- Knowledge of advanced Python features, especially async programming.
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- A strong product sense that manifests as a focus on developer ergonomics and productivity.
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- A high level of customer empathy, good communication skills, and an openness to working directly with our users to help solve their problems.
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- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
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- A strong product sense that manifests as a focus on developer ergonomics and
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productivity.
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- A high level of customer empathy, good communication skills, and an openness
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to working directly with our users to help solve their problems.
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- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production
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incidents.
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- Ability to work in-person in our NYC or Stockholm office.
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure
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couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company
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that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different,
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except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the
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layer underneath it is open right now.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp,
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Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access,
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sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve
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low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes
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at scale.
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**The Role:**
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We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General
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since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,
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Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and
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experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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**The Role:**
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We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing,
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building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our
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serverless platform.
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- 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
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- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale (the more battle scars, the better)
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- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale
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(the more battle scars, the better)
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- Strong cloud skills
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- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
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- Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!)
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- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel,
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file systems, containers, etc.)
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- Experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved
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off a few milliseconds!)
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- Ability to work in-person in our Stockholm office.
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- Prior experience with Rust is nice to have, but not required.
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- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
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- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure
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couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company
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that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different,
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except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the
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layer underneath it is open right now.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp,
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Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access,
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sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve
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low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes
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at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General
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Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold
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since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,
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Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and
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experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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**The Role:**
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At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical production systems. As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our platform, customer base, and our team.
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This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines, and thrive from making others move faster at scale.
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At Modal, we sell cloud services atop which our customers run their critical
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production systems. As a rapidly growing new cloud infrastructure company, we
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seek to improve our reliability dramatically while scaling the size of our
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platform, customer base, and our team.
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This role is for people who are deep systems thinkers, love stacking nines,
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and thrive from making others move faster at scale.
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- Identifying architectural changes to improve reliability and performance.
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- Fostering a culture of reliability across Modal’s engineering organization.
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- Defining and implementing operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, etc.
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- Defining and implementing operational processes such as deployments,
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- Operating systems like Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, etc.
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- Participating in on-call rotations, and responding to production incidents.
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- 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
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- 2+ years of on-call experience for critical production services.
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- Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler cloud (AWS preferred).
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- Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at scale.
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- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure, at scale
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- Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a plus.
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- Experience with systems safety research (e.g. STAMP) and control theory a plus.
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- Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one hyperscaler
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cloud (AWS preferred).
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- Familiarity with auto scaling, fleet management, and capacity planning at
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scale.
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- Experience operating databases, monitoring, CI/CD, and other infrastructure,
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at scale
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- Experience owning and scaling Kubernetes clusters to thousands of nodes a
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- Experience with systems safety research (e.g. STAMP) and control theory a
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- Ability to work in-person in our NYC or Stockholm offices.
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AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
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Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure
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couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company
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that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different,
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except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the
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layer underneath it is open right now.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp,
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Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access,
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sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve
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low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes
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at scale.
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We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General
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Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold
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since September.
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Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,
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Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and
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experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
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**The Role:**
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We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a group of highly experienced engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll spend roughly half your time on technical contribution and half on people management, depending on the need. You’ll work closely with the team to set direction, remove blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture as they tackle complex systems challenges in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and performance optimization.
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We think you are an experienced engineering leader who thrives close to the work and enjoys building alongside their team when needed. You earn trust through technical depth, communicate with clarity, and help great engineers move fast and make sound decisions. You thrive in a fast paced environment, you are pragmatic, calm under pressure, and focused on impact.
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We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a group of highly experienced
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engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll spend roughly half
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your time on technical contribution and half on people management, depending
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on the need. You’ll work closely with the team to set direction, remove
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blockers, and foster a strong engineering culture as they tackle complex
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systems challenges in distributed computing, large-scale data handling, and
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performance optimization.
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We think you are an experienced engineering leader who thrives close to the
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work and enjoys building alongside their team when needed. You earn trust
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through technical depth, communicate with clarity, and help great engineers
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move fast and make sound decisions. You thrive in a fast paced environment,
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you are pragmatic, calm under pressure, and focused on impact.
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- At least 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years experience in a leadership role
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- At least 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years experience in a
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leadership role
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- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at a large scale
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- Strong background in cloud infrastructure
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- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)
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- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel,
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file systems, containers, etc.)
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- Proficient in systems-level languages such as Rust, C, C++, or Java
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