Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
fal · Remote - Global
CHECKED 16H AGO
Infrastructureremotesenior$180K – $250K • Offers Equity
At a glance
Highlights
- Build core platform for routing, orchestration, and GPU autoscaling at scale.
- Design systems to scale 100x traffic with low latency worldwide.
- Use AI heavily to automate building complex, reliable systems.
What they offer
- Interesting and challenging work
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Regular team events and offsites
Ideal candidate
Self-starting distributed systems builder who thrives on large-scale, high-traffic platforms and owns reliability with minimal overhead. You move fast, communicate well, and obsess over performance and constant improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ 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
- Experience with AI/ML inference or training infrastructure
- Experience with high-performance systems programming
- Background in building multi-tenant compute platforms
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and performance characteristics
- Familiarity with GPU workload characteristics and scheduling constraints
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