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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

fal · Remote - Global

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Infrastructureremotesenior$180K – $250K • Offers Equity
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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
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