fal.ai
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
$180K–$225K
San Francisco · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years as a software or data engineer.
About the job
Build data infrastructure and telemetry pipelines that provide near-real-time insight into infrastructure performance, usage, costs, and margins.
What you'll do
- Instrument production infrastructure to capture CPU, GPU, and request-level signals.
- Build ingestion pipelines from partner APIs, compute vendors, and internal services into a warehouse and low-latency analytical store.
- Design and operate ETL pipelines and a low-latency analytics write path, partnering across infrastructure, data, and product engineering.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience as a software or data engineer, with a software-engineering-heavy track record (Python, Go, or similar).
- Ability to safely ship code into critical production infrastructure, with familiarity in database performance, query patterns, and incident risk.
- Hands-on experience building warehouse ingestion pipelines and using at least one low-latency analytical store.
- Strong SQL and working proficiency in dbt and orchestration tooling.
Nice to have
- Experience instrumenting GPU/accelerator workloads or other infrastructure-cost-heavy systems; exposure to FinOps or infrastructure cost modeling.
- Experience with developer-facing API products or platforms, or at an early-stage or fast-scaling startup.
Pay
$180,000 – $225,000 OTE (compensation; base/total pay not specified)
Tools
Python, Go, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot
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