Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Fal.aiGenerative Media company
RemoteSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
Meritech Capital Partners
Salesforce Ventures
Kindred Ventures
Notable Capital
Shopify Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Experienced software engineer for building scalable distributed systems.
- •You are an experienced software engineer who thrives on building large-scale computing platforms.
- •You have deep expertise in large scale distributed systems that deal with high complexity, a lot of traffic and data.
- •Key Responsibilities Build our core Python/Rust platform: request routing, AI workload orchestration, scheduling, GPU autoscaling, large scale file storage, queueing, etc Produce forward designs for platform evolution as we scale to 100x current traffic and need to provide low latency across the world Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate the mundane parts of building complex but reliable systems Profile and tune low level CPU and memory performance 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
Required skills
PythonRustKubernetesCI/CDDockerTechnical Leadership
Tech stack
PythonRustKubernetesCI/CDDocker