FAL
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$250kDetected 62 days ago
PythonRustDistributed SystemsMachine LearningCommunication
About the role
- fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform
- where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products.
Responsibilities
- Build our core Python/Rust platform: request routing, AI workload orchestration, scheduling, GPU autoscaling, large scale file storage, queueing, etc
- Produce forward designs for platform evolution as we scale to 100x current traffic and need to provide low latency across the world
- Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate the mundane parts of building complex but reliable systems
- 3+ years experience building distributed compute and orchestration platforms in Python or Rust
- Experience building and using observability to drive performance and reliability decisions
- Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, scheduling, fault tolerance, capacity planning
- Track record of designing systems that scale under real production load
- You have deep expertise in large scale distributed systems that deal with high complexity, a lot of traffic and data.
- You know how to achieve reliability and scale with minimum operational load.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML inference or training infrastructure
- Experience with high-performance systems programming (async runtimes, zero-copy, memory-safe concurrency)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and performance characteristics
- Familiarity with GPU workload characteristics and scheduling constraints
- Interesting and challenging work
- Regular team events and offsites
Skills
- fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products.
Compensation
- $180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits (This range is across all 3 levels Mid, Senior and Staff)
- San Francisco, CA (willing to consider remote for Senior and Staff levels)
- Interesting and challenging work
- We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.
- We offer relocation assistance to San Francisco.
- Regular team events and offsites
Benefits
- A lot of learning and growth opportunities
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
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