Staff Software Engineer, Compute

You are an experienced software engineer who thrives on building large scale computation platforms. You have deep expertise in backend systems that orchestrate workloads and route requests efficiently, while taking care of capacity and resource constraints. You possess a strong understanding of foundational cloud infrastructure and Linux provisioning and management tools. You know how to achieve reliability and scale with minimum operational load.

Key responsibilities

Develop and maintain our core Python platform, which handles routing of requests, orchestration of AI workloads, GPU server capacity management, observability, authentication, rate limiting, and many others

Develop and maintain our infrastructure layer where we use Terraform, Ansible, and provider APIs to manage our fleet of GPU workers

Own K8s, FluxCD, Nomad, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, distributed networking storage, and other technologies that underpin our platform

Create the vision and lay the foundation for where our infrastructure should go in the next 1 / 2 / 5 years

Requirements

Deep experience building distributed compute platforms, preferably with Python

Strong foundation in managing both cloud and bare metal infrastructure

Solid understanding of K8s and CI / CD on it

Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership and constantly seeks improvement

What we offer at fal

Interesting and challenging work

Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

A lot of learning and growth opportunities

We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.

We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.

Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

Regular team events and offsites

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