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Senior Software Engineer, Data

fal · San Francisco

CHECKED 16H AGO

Infrastructureonsitesenior$180k–$225k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build the data backbone powering cost, margin and usage analytics company-wide.
  • Instrument core infrastructure to unlock real-time cost and performance insights.
  • Partner with Infra to safely land changes in critical production paths.

What they offer

  • Relocation assistance to San Francisco
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
  • Regular team events and offsites
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Learning and growth opportunities

Ideal candidate

Software-minded data engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves partnering across infra and product. You care about durable systems, safe production changes, and turning complex costs into clarity.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a software or data engineer, with a software-engineering-heavy track record (Python, Go, or similar)
  • Demonstrated ability to ship code into critical production infrastructure safely, including familiarity with database performance, query patterns, and incident risk
  • Hands-on experience building ingestion pipelines into a warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) and at least one low-latency analytical store (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, or similar)
  • Strong SQL and working proficiency in dbt and orchestration tooling (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
  • Track record of partnering across teams (infra, product engineering, data) and translating business questions into durable systems
  • Bias for action and comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Experience instrumenting GPU/accelerator workloads or other infrastructure-cost-heavy systems
  • Exposure to FinOps or infrastructure cost modeling at a cloud-native company
  • Experience with developer-facing API products or platforms
  • Early-stage or fast-scaling startup experience

Lab profile

About fal

Generative media infrastructure platform for high-performance inference, orchestration, and model access at scale.

What they build

  • Generative media platform
  • High-performance inference APIs
  • Model orchestration

Known for

  • High-performance inference at scale
  • Unified inference, orchestration and observability
  • Idea-to-production for developers and enterprises
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