# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infrastructure at Fal.ai

- Company: Fal.ai
- What the company does: Easiest & most cost-effective way to use Gen AI. fal.ai is how devs integrate dozens of generative media models. FLUX, Kling, Hailuo +1000 more. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://fal.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fal-ai/d9384b0a-2f86-4e9a-bcc7-5b49f1c0b081
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fal-ai-senior-staff-software-engineer-kubernetes-infrastructure/

## About the role

You will build the high-performance compute environments we deliver to customers. These environments span bare-metal servers, virtual machines with GPU passthrough, Kubernetes and Slurm clusters, distributed storage, and high-speed networking. You will work across the infrastructure stack — from Linux images and hardware provisioning to cluster networking, GPU performance, observability, and lifecycle automation. The goal is to make every customer environment performant, reliable, isolated, and repeatable.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience building and operating production Linux infrastructure
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes on bare metal (bootstrapping, upgrades, HA control planes, etcd, containerd, CNI, CSI, ingress, load-balancing, observability, security, troubleshooting)
- Experience with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough
- Experience operating NVIDIA GPUs on Linux and Kubernetes (drivers, container runtimes, device plugins, GPU Operator, GPU telemetry)
- Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, L2/L3, VLANs, routing, packet-level troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark)
- Practical scripting experience

Tags: Engineering