Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Core Product Systems
Summary
fal is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco to own core backend product systems starting with billing, pricing, and fraud, plus accounts, identity, API keys, and model discovery. Day to day: designing APIs and data models in Python or TypeScript on PostgreSQL, building React/Next.js admin and product surfaces, and running on-call for the systems you build.
You will own and evolve core backend product systems, beginning with billing, fraud, and pricing. You will design APIs, data models, and product contracts; build reliable systems for accounts, identity, API keys, and model discovery; maintain operational health and on-call coverage; and turn manual workflows into durable systems with cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Own billing and pricing systems, including metering, usage roll-ups, pricing logic, and customer and admin surfaces
- Design APIs, data models, and product contracts
- Own systems for accounts, access, identity, API keys, and model discovery
- Engineer for correctness, resilience, auditability, permissions, observability, and graceful failure
- Own operational health and on-call for the systems you build
- Partner across product, infrastructure, finance, revenue, security, and customer-facing functions
Requirements
- 5+ years building reliable production backend systems in Python or TypeScript
- PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, queries, migrations, and performance
- API and data-model design experience
- Ability to ship product and internal surfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Systems judgment in source of truth, idempotency, auditability, permissions, and observability
- Product judgment for workflows, edge cases, and customer trust
- Experience working across product, business logic, and infrastructure
- Experience with usage-based billing, metering, or pricing
- Experience with identity and access systems
- Experience with developer platforms, model registries, or usage and observability dashboards
- Experience with generative AI, inference APIs, or developer-facing AI products
Benefits
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance to San Francisco
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Regular team events and offsites