Software Engineer, Site Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Relocation assistance

Learning and growth opportunities

Regular team events

Job summary

fal is hiring an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in San Francisco, CA, to manage Kubernetes infrastructure and improve production systems. The role requires 5+ years of experience and strong skills in automation using Python and infrastructure-as-code tools. Compensation ranges from $180,000 to $250,000, including equity and benefits, along with growth opportunities and relocation assistance. The company promotes a collaborative environment with regular team events.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in managing production systems.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes at scale.
• Proficiency in Python and either Go or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AI for automating issue resolution.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)

Linux networking

CI/CD systems

Python

Monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Communication skills

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

You are a seasoned SRE who keeps production infrastructure running at scale. You own the reliability and availability of customer-facing systems — from Kubernetes clusters to deployment pipelines to the networking layer that connects it all. You think in SLOs, automate ruthlessly, and treat every incident as a chance to make the system better.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and operate our Kubernetes infrastructure: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, and multi-tenant isolation for customer workloads
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure
• Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate analysis and resolution of production issues, and improve software development speed, reliability and maintainability
• Build dashboards, alerting, and anomaly detection across our systems
• Define and enforce SLOs and build out incident response processes
• Manage and improve our networking, load balancing, and service mesh configurations
• Drive reliability improvements across the stack through automation, runbooks, and chaos engineering

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in managing critical production systems and software development workflows
• Strong production experience setting up and operating Kubernetes at scale, using infrastructure-as-code (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

Nice to have

• Experience with 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.)

Compensation

• $180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits (Range is based across 3 levels MId, Senior and Staff)

Location

San Francisco, CA (willing to consider remote for Senior and Staff levels)

What we offer at fal

• Interesting and challenging work
• A lot of learning and growth opportunities
• We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.
• We offer relocation assistance to San Francisco.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

Regular team events and offsites