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Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed

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6 days ago

Base Salary

$150k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Join enterprise onboarding calls and act as the technical owner for deployments.
  • Help customers integrate their models into fal Serverless.
  • Debug customer issues end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infra layers.
  • Translate customer feedback into clear product specs, tasks, and engineering priorities.
  • Work closely with Product and Infra teams to ensure enterprise needs are met.
  • Build custom proofs-of-concept or lightweight integrations to unblock adoption.
  • Identify repeatable patterns across customers and turn them into reusable product features.
  • Improve internal tooling, onboarding flows, and documentation based on customer pain points.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering background with proficiency in TypeScript, Python, Postgres, and Next.js.
  • Experience working with customers in a technical capacity.
  • Comfortable solving ambiguous customer problems quickly.
  • Ability to understand complex systems and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong written communication skills for turning customer conversations into actionable specs.
  • Experience working across APIs, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
  • High ownership mentality for customer success.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, low-process environment.

Benefits

  • Own the success of fal’s most important enterprise deployments.
  • Work on a product used at massive scale with real production workloads.
  • Direct influence over product roadmap through customer feedback.
  • High autonomy and visibility across Product, Infra, and Sales leadership.
  • Be a foundational member of a rapidly growing product vertical.
  • Work at one of the fastest-growing AI startups.

Tech Stack

KubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonTypeScript