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FalFalSan Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior backend engineer building foundational services for fal's generative media and commerce platform. Design and scale distributed systems, APIs, databases, and IaC on cloud infrastructure. Requires 5+ years experience with Python, Go, or Rust.

180k – 250k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Fal's commerce platform.
  • Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
  • Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems.
  • Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
  • Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices.
  • Expert-level programmer in one or more of Python, Go, or Rust.
  • Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.
  • Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, or containers.
  • Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc).

Compensation

  • $180,000 - $250,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package.

Skills

PythonGoRustDistributed SystemsApi MicroservicesInfrastructure As CodeCI/CDKubernetesKafkaAirflowKinesisStripe

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