Software Engineer, Site Reliability
fal · San Francisco
CHECKED 14H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$180k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own reliability for generative media platform powering AI products at scale.
- Use AI extensively to automate analysis and resolution of production issues.
- Help scale infrastructure behind next-gen AI products used by ambitious teams.
What they offer
- Interesting and challenging work
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
- Regular team events and offsites
Ideal candidate
Seasoned SRE who thrives owning critical production systems and treats every incident as a chance to improve. Self-starter who automates relentlessly, communicates clearly, and cares about reliability at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience managing critical production systems and software development workflows
- Strong production experience setting up and operating Kubernetes at scale using IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, container networking (CNI plugins, VXLAN, BGP), and DNS
- Experience building CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in Python and either Go or Bash for tooling and automation
- Strong experience with logging, monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Datadog)
- Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
- Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement
- Experience managing GPU and AI/ML workloads
- Experience with kernel-based monitoring and routing (eBPF, XDP)
- Experience with security tooling (Falco, Coroot, SIEM)
- Experience with bare metal Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, MetalLB)
- Experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph, Longhorn, etc.)
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