Job Application for Senior/Staff Virtualization Engineer at fal Back to jobs Senior/Staff Virtualization Engineer San Francisco Apply You build the custom compute environments we deliver to customers — bare metal or virtual machines with GPU passthrough, dedicated Kubernetes clusters, and the networking that ties them together. You work across the full stack from Linux image building to overlay network design to cluster bootstrapping. Key
responsibilities Build and deliver custom environments with excellent GPU performance for customer workloads Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate provisioning, alerting and recovery Provision and configure dedicated Kubernetes clusters tailored to customer
requirements Design and implement overlay networking (VLAN, VXLAN) and routing configurations (ECMP, BGP) and tunnels (strongSwan, IPSEC) for tenant isolation and performance Build and maintain Linux images Set up network monitoring and diagnostics for customer environments Automate the end-to-end lifecycle of customer compute environments: creation, configuration, validation, and teardown
Requirements 5+ years experience with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough, hugepages, NUMA, CPU pinning Strong networking fundamentals: VXLAN, VLAN, ECMP, BGP, ARP, and the ability to debug packet-level issues (tcpdump, Wireshark) Production experience building and operating Kubernetes clusters on bare metal (MetalLB) Proficiency with Linux image building and OS provisioning (kickstart, cloud-init, PXE/iPXE) Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ansible and Terraform Deep experience with NVIDIA GPUs: drivers, MIG, container runtimes (nvidia-container-toolkit), InfiniBand, RDMA/RoCEv2 and GPUDirect for high-performance AI networking Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement
Nice to have Experience with SR-IOV, DPDK, or other high-performance networking technologies Experience with shared network storage (Ceph, Lustre, Weka) Experience with network automation tools (Netbox, Nautobot, Nornir)
Compensation $180,000-250,000 plus equity +
benefits Location San Francisco, CA What we offer at fal Interesting and challenging work A lot of learning and growth opportunities We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco. We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco. Health, dental, and vision insurance (US) Regular team events and offsites Apply for this job * indicates a required field First Name * Last Name * Preferred First Name Email * Phone Country Phone Resume/CV Attach Attach Dropbox Google Drive Enter manually Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf Cover Letter Attach Attach Dropbox Google Drive Enter manually Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile Website Submit application Powered by Greenhouse
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000
Location
San Francisco
Experience
5+ years
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Burkay Gur
Founder
Gorkem Yurtseven
Founder
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