Senior Software Engineer, Data
fal · San Francisco
CHECKED 16H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$180k–$225k
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