San Francisco, Canada On-site Employment

fal is hiring a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

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
  • Profile and tune low level CPU and memory performance

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience building distributed compute and orchestration platforms in Python or Rust
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, scheduling, fault tolerance, capacity planning
  • Deep understanding of computational complexity and memory allocation
  • Track record of designing systems that scale under real production load
  • Experience building and using observability to drive performance and reliability decisions
  • Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
  • Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AI/ML inference or training infrastructure
  • Experience with high-performance systems programming (async runtimes, zero-copy, memory-safe concurrency)
  • Background in building multi-tenant compute platforms
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals and performance characteristics
  • Familiarity with GPU workload characteristics and scheduling constraints

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
  • Regular team events and offsites

Compensation

Compensation - $180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits (This range is across all 3 levels Mid, Senior and Staff)

Work Arrangement

On-site — San Francisco, CA

Additional Information

  • We offer relocation assistance to San Francisco.
  • Willing to consider remote for Senior and Staff levels
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fal

Generative media platform for developers.

The world's best generative image, video, and audio models, all in one place. Develop and fine-tune models with serverless GPUs and on-demand clusters.

Choose from 1,000+ production ready image, video, audio and 3D models. Build products using fal model apis. Scale custom AI models with fal serverless. Access 1000s of H100, H200 and B200 VMs with fal compute.

fal powers AI features in some of the world's most demanding environments — from public companies to hypergrowth startups. The platform is SOC 2 compliant and built for enterprise scale.

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Department Engineering
Category other
Posted a year ago