Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

The role

You will build data infrastructure to track cost, margin, and performance. This involves instrumenting core systems and building ingestion pipelines from partner APIs and internal services.

What you will do

• Instrument core infrastructure to capture CPU, GPU, and request-level signals.
• Build ingestion pipelines from partner APIs, compute vendors, and internal services into BigQuery and a low-latency analytical store.
• Design and operate the ETL backbone for cost, margin, and usage analytics.
• Stand up a lightweight, low-latency write path for analytics-grade telemetry.
• Partner with infra, data and product engineering to define data contracts and instrumentation standards.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software or data engineer, with a software-engineering-heavy track record (Python, Go, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to ship code into critical production infrastructure safely
• Familiarity with database performance, query patterns, and incident risk
• Hands-on experience building ingestion pipelines into a warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift)
• Hands-on experience with at least one low-latency analytical store (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, or similar)
• Strong SQL
• Working proficiency in dbt and orchestration tooling (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
• Track record of partnering across teams (infra, product engineering, data)
• Bias for action and comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Nice to have

• Experience instrumenting GPU/accelerator workloads or other infrastructure-cost-heavy systems
• Exposure to FinOps or infrastructure cost modeling at a cloud-native company
• Experience with developer-facing API products or platforms
• Early-stage or fast-scaling startup experience

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to San Francisco
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Regular team events and offsites
• Interesting and challenging work
• A lot of learning and growth opportunities

About the company

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. They build infrastructure, tools, and model access for developers and enterprises.