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As a Senior Data Engineer at fal, you will build the data infrastructure that turns our internal systems and external vendor relationships into a clear picture of cost, margin, and performance.
Your work spans both edges of our stack - the production infrastructure that runs every model invocation, and the partner APIs and compute vendors whose costs we need to reason about in near real-time.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and data engineering.
You'll partner closely with Infra to safely instrument core systems, design a low-latency analytical write path, and stand up the ingestion pipelines that unlock cost, margin, and infrastructure analytics for the entire company.
You will be a force multiplier - freeing up product engineers and infra to focus on what they do best while giving the data team the foundations it needs to move fast.
As a Senior Data Engineer at fal, you will build the data infrastructure that turns our internal systems and external vendor relationships into a clear picture of cost, margin, and performance. Your work spans both edges of our stack - the production infrastructure that runs every model invocation, and the partner APIs and compute vendors whose costs we need to reason about in near real-time.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and data engineering. You'll partner closely with Infra to safely instrument core systems, design a low-latency analytical write path, and stand up the ingestion pipelines that unlock cost, margin, and infrastructure analytics for the entire company. You will be a force multiplier - freeing up product engineers and infra to focus on what they do best while giving the data team the foundations it needs to move fast.
Instrument fal's core infrastructure to capture CPU, GPU, and request-level signals, working alongside our infra team to land changes safely in critical paths.
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