Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (Serverless)

fal; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Regular team events

Learning and growth opportunities

Job summary

fal is hiring a Full Stack Engineer for its Serverless platform. You will build core UI features and backend APIs, while driving performance, reliability, and scalability for production systems used by enterprise customers.

The role emphasizes owning features end-to-end from design to production, collaborating with Product and Infrastructure, and contributing to a fast-moving, low-process environment. This is a pivotal downstream product role at a growing company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend and backend experience.
• Strong TypeScript, Python, Postgres, and Next.js skills.
• Experience delivering features end-to-end in production.
• Ability to design clean abstractions for long-term maintainability.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, low-process environments.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure-adjacent products.
• Familiarity with observability tooling in production environments.
• Experience with AI inference, training, or compute spaces.
• Background in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with real-time systems, streaming logs, or high-throughput data pipelines.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Prometheus, Datadog, or gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core Serverless UI features (dashboards, logs, observability, configuration, usage).
• Design and implement backend APIs powering the Serverless product experience.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of customer-facing systems.
• Work closely with Infrastructure to align features with platform capabilities.
• Own features end-to-end, from design through production and iteration.

Skills

Full stack

UI & Backend

TypeScript

Python

PostgreSQL

Next.js

End-to-end ownership

Performance optimization

Developer platforms

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Datadog

gRPC

Ownership mentality

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Datadog

gRPC

Job description

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products.

As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on.

About this role:

As a Full Stack Engineer on Serverless, you will build the core product across frontend and backend that powers fal’s Serverless platform.This is a deeply product-focused role. You will work side-by-side with Product and Infrastructure to design and ship reusable, scalable systems that enterprise customers rely on in production every day.

You will be a foundational technical owner of fal Serverless as it scales to thousands of enterprise customers, with real responsibility, autonomy, and impact. This is a chance to help build a new product vertical from the ground up inside a company that is already scaling at rocket-ship speed.

What you’ll work on:

• Build and maintain core Serverless UI features (dashboards, logs, observability, configuration, usage)

• Design and implement backend APIs that power the Serverless product experience

• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of customer-facing systems

• Work closely with Infrastructure to ensure product features align with platform capabilities

• Own features end-to-end, from design through production and iteration

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years experience working across both frontend and backend

• Ability to context switch between UI, backend, and performance work

• Proficiency with TypeScript, Python, Postgres, and Next.js

• Experience owning features end-to-end in production systems

• Product-minded engineer who values clean abstractions and long-term maintainability

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, low-process environment

• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure-adjacent products

• Familiarity with observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing) in production environments

• Experience in generative AI inference, training and compute space.

• Background in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud-native architectures

• Experience with real-time systems, streaming logs, or high-throughput data pipelines

• Exposure to technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Datadog, gRPC, or similar systems

• Entrepreneurial mindset and strong ownership mentality

What we offer at fal:

• Interesting and challenging work

• A lot of learning and growth opportunities

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and offsite

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION:

fal provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law.