Senior Data Engineer — Cost & Performance Analytics

fal - Features & Labels; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance (

Relocation assistance

Job summary

fal is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build the data infrastructure that surfaces cost, margin, and performance insights. You will work on production infrastructure and partner APIs, enabling near real-time analytics across the company.

You will partner with Infra, Data, and Product Engineering to define data contracts, instrumentation standards, and durable pipelines, unlocking faster, safer product development at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software or data engineer.
• Proficient in Python or Go for production data systems.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines to data warehouses.
• Familiar with low-latency analytics stores and orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Instrument core infrastructure to capture CPU, GPU, and request-level signals.
• Build ingestion pipelines from partner APIs, compute vendors, and internal services into BigQuery and a low-latency store (e.g., ClickHouse).
• Design and operate the ETL backbone powering cost, margin, and usage analytics.
• Stand up a lightweight, low-latency write path for analytics telemetry.
• Collaborate across infra, data, and product engineering to define data contracts and instrumentation standards.

Skills

Python

Go

SQL

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

ClickHouse

Druid

Pinot

Tools

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

Job description

fal is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build the data infrastructure that surfaces cost, margin, and performance insights. You will work on production infrastructure and partner APIs, enabling near real-time analytics across the company.

You will partner with Infra, Data, and Product Engineering to define data contracts, instrumentation standards, and durable pipelines, unlocking faster, safer product development at scale.