FAL
Software Engineer, Virtualization
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$250kDetected 61 days ago
PythonBashFull-Stack DevelopmentKubernetesTerraformAnsibleLinuxEmbedded SystemsVPNBGP/OSPFWiresharkNetwork MonitoringCommunication
About the role
- Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate provisioning, alerting and recovery
- Set up network monitoring and diagnostics for customer environments
Responsibilities
- Build and deliver custom environments with excellent GPU performance for customer workloads
- Design and implement overlay networking (VLAN, VXLAN) and routing configurations (ECMP, BGP) and tunnels (strongSwan, IPSEC) for tenant isolation and performance
- Build and maintain Linux images
- Production experience building and operating Kubernetes clusters on bare metal (MetalLB)
Requirements
- 5+ years experience with
- 5+ years experience with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough, hugepages, NUMA, CPU pinning
- Strong networking fundamentals: VXLAN, VLAN, ECMP, BGP, ARP, and the ability to debug packet-level issues (tcpdump, Wireshark)
- Proficiency with Linux image building and OS provisioning (kickstart, cloud-init, PXE/iPXE)
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ansible and Terraform
- Deep experience with NVIDIA GPUs: drivers, MIG, container runtimes (nvidia-container-toolkit), InfiniBand, RDMA/RoCEv2 and GPUDirect for high-performance AI networking
Nice to have
- Experience with SR-IOV, DPDK, or other high-performance networking technologies
- Experience with shared network storage (Ceph, Lustre, Weka)
- Experience with network automation tools (Netbox, Nautobot, Nornir)
- San Francisco, CA
- 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 encompasses 2 levels Senior and Staff)
- San Francisco, CA
- 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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