Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

<p>You are an experienced software engineer who thrives on building large-scale computing platforms. You have deep expertise in large scale distributed systems that deal with high complexity, a lot of traffic and data. You know how to achieve reliability and scale with minimum operational load.</p> <h3><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build our core Python/Rust platform: request routing, AI workload orchestration, scheduling, GPU autoscaling, large scale file storage, queueing, etc</li> <li>Produce forward designs for platform evolution as we scale to 100x current traffic and need to provide low latency across the world</li> <li>Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate the mundane parts of building complex but reliable systems</li> <li>Profile and tune low level CPU and memory performance</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5+ years experience building distributed compute and orchestration platforms in Python or Rust</li> <li>Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, scheduling, fault tolerance, capacity planning</li> <li>Deep understanding of computational complexity and memory allocation</li> <li>Track record of designing systems that scale under real production load</li> <li>Experience building and using observability to drive performance and reliability decisions</li> <li>Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams</li> <li>Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement</li> </ul> <h3>Nice to have</h3> <ul> <li>Experience with AI/ML inference or training infrastructure</li> <li>Experience with high-performance systems programming (async runtimes, zero-copy, memory-safe concurrency)</li> <li>Background in building multi-tenant compute platforms</li> <li>Understanding of networking fundamentals and performance characteristics</li> <li>Familiarity with GPU workload characteristics and scheduling constraints</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Location</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Turkey</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we offer at fal</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Interesting and challenging work</li> <li>A lot of learning and growth opportunities</li> <li>Regular team events and offsites</li> </ul>