--- title: Senior Software Engineer Full Stack at fal description: fal is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer Full Stack role in San Francisco, CA. Full-time role. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-full-stack-at-fal-01a11909-6195-7e95-aaf9-d73a41355bc0 date: 2026-10-08T01:16:17Z og_description: Join fal as Senior Software Engineer Full Stack in San Francisco, CA. Pays $180K–$230K per year. Full-time role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/yd9xat.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | fal | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA | | **Salary** | $180K/yr - $230K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 07, 2026 | ## Description fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products. As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on. ### **About this role:** As a Full Stack Engineer on Serverless, you will build the core product across frontend and backend that powers fal’s Serverless platform. This is a deeply product-focused role. You will work side-by-side with Product and Infrastructure to design and ship reusable, scalable systems that enterprise customers rely on in production every day. You will be a foundational technical owner of fal Serverless as it scales to thousands of enterprise customers, with real responsibility, autonomy, and impact. This is a chance to help build a new product vertical from the ground up inside a company that is already scaling at rocket-ship speed.   ### **What you’ll work on:** - Build and maintain core Serverless UI features (dashboards, logs, observability, configuration, usage) - Design and implement backend APIs that power the Serverless product experience - Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of customer-facing systems - Work closely with Infrastructure to ensure product features align with platform capabilities - Own features end-to-end, from design through production and iteration ### **Qualifications:** - Minimum 5+ years experience working across both frontend and backend - Ability to context switch between UI, backend, and performance work - Proficiency with TypeScript, Python, Postgres, and Next.js - Experience owning features end-to-end in production systems - Product-minded engineer who values clean abstractions and long-term maintainability - Comfortable working in a fast-moving, low-process environment - Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure-adjacent products - Familiarity with observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing) in production environments - Experience in generative AI inference, training and compute space. - Background in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud-native architectures - Experience with real-time systems, streaming logs, or high-throughput data pipelines - Exposure to technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Datadog, gRPC, or similar systems - Entrepreneurial mindset and strong ownership mentality ### **What we offer at fal:** - Interesting and challenging work - A lot of learning and growth opportunities - Health, dental, and vision insurance (US) - Regular team events and offsite **U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION:** fal provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. ## Skills - gRPC - High-Throughput Screening - Container Orchestration - Logging - Python - Observability - Distributed Tracing - Cloud Architecture - PostgreSQL - Kubernetes - Scalability - Generative AI - Datadog - Software Maintainability - Front End (Software Engineering) - Prometheus - TypeScript - Serverless Computing - Back End (Software Engineering) - Next.js - User Interface Design - Generative AI Foundations - Data Pipeline - Distributed Systems ## Benefits - Vision Insurance - Company Events - Dental Insurance - Health Insurance ## Related - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 273558 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118659 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27052 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 273558 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 118659 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 27052 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)