Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — AI Platform & Orchestration

fal - Features & Labels; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Relocation assistance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Team events

Offsites

Job summary

fal is seeking an experienced software engineer to build large-scale distributed platforms. You will own core Python/Rust systems for request routing, orchestration, and autoscaling, handling high traffic with reliability.

You will design for 100x growth, apply AI to automate engineering tasks, and optimize CPU/memory performance, collaborating across teams. Location: San Francisco, with relocation assistance and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in distributed compute/orchestration platforms in Python or Rust.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proven ability to design scalable systems under production load.
• Experience using observability to drive performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build core Python/Rust platform: routing, orchestration, scheduling, autoscaling, storage, queues.

Skills

Distributed compute

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Observability

Communication

Self-starter

Job description

fal is seeking an experienced software engineer to build large-scale distributed platforms. You will own core Python/Rust systems for request routing, orchestration, and autoscaling, handling high traffic with reliability.

You will design for 100x growth, apply AI to automate engineering tasks, and optimize CPU/memory performance, collaborating across teams. Location: San Francisco, with relocation assistance and comprehensive benefits.