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Product Engineering Manager

Modal Labs

Modal Labs

Product
New York, NY, USA
Posted on May 14, 2025

About Us:

Modal is building the serverless compute platform to support the next generation of AI companies. In order to deliver the developer experience we wanted, we went deep and built our own infrastructure—including our own custom file system, container runtime, scheduler, container image builder, and much more.

We're a small team based out of New York, Stockholm and San Francisco. In just one year, we've reached 8-figure revenue, tripled our headcount, scaled to support thousands of GPUs, and raised over $32M in funding.

Working at Modal means joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure organizations at an early stage, with many opportunities to grow within the company. 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.

The Role:

We're looking for strong engineering managers who love leading and mentoring high-performing full-stack engineering teams and have a high degree of customer empathy, product sense and ownership.

Requirements:

  • 1+ years of engineering management experience.

  • 4+ years of full-time software engineering experience.

  • Experience building applications with a modern front-end Javascript framework such as React. Prior experience in Svelte is nice to have, but not required.

  • Experience architecting and scaling modern web infrastructure.

  • Strong product sense and experience driving product outcomes.

  • Strong communication skills and a desire to partner with our customers in solving their problems.

  • Ability to partner closely with product design to craft delightful user experiences.

  • Ability to work in-person in our NYC office.