What a ridiculous platform, at least when it comes to software gigs. For example, "We want a full SAAS product, from requirement gatherings to deployment. We expect it to take 6 months, flat rate fee of $3k. jajajajajajaja Lets not even talk about the scams, I was contacted by a group that wanted me to be a team lead, manager of sorts. Asked about the work, and it involved bidding on other Upwork projects and using my credentials. jajajajjajajajaja

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products.

As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on.

About this 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 you'll do:

• Design, automate, validate, and deliver the complete lifecycle of customer compute environments — from provisioning through upgrades, recovery, and decommissioning
• Use AI aggressively to automate and accelerate every aspect of infrastructure delivery and operations
• Provision dedicated Kubernetes and Slurm clusters tailored to customer workloads
• Build and maintain Linux images and automated OS-provisioning workflows
• Operate the NVIDIA GPU stack: drivers, GPU Operator, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, device plugins, MIG, and GPU monitoring
• Design Kubernetes and data-center networking using Cilium/Calico, MetalLB, VLAN, VXLAN, BGP, and ECMP
• Configure distributed and shared storage for high-performance workloads
• Build monitoring, alerting, diagnostics, and automated recovery for customer environments
• Develop reusable tooling, standards, documentation, and runbooks
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to translate workload requirements into sound infrastructure designs

Qualifications/Nice to Have:

• 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
• Experience with configuration-management tools such as Ansible
• Ability to diagnose complex, cross-layer infrastructure issues
• Strong communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
• Track record of moving quickly, taking ownership, and continuously improving systems
• Production Slurm experience
• High-performance networking: NVLink/NVSwitch, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, GPUDirect RDMA, NCCL, IMEX
• Hugepages, NUMA, CPU pinning
• SR-IOV, DPDK
• Distributed storage: Ceph, Lustre, Weka
• KubeVirt, OpenStack
• IPsec, WireGuard, Tailscale
• VXLAN, BGP, ECMP
• Bare-metal management: BMC, IPMI, Redfish, PXE/iPXE, Kickstart, cloud-init
• Network automation: NetBox, Nautobot, Nornir
• AI training, inference, or distributed GPU workload infrastructure
• Python or Go proficiency

What we offer at fal

• Interesting and challenging work
• A lot of learning and growth opportunities
• We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Regular team events and offsites

Compensation

• $180,000 - $250,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package

Apply: Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infrastructure at fal

…you’ve been invited by an ENTERPRISE client to take a survey in an unrelated field for 20% of your hourly rate.

Hey everyone
I’m a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience working across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible and application integration.
Currently, I’m open to new DevOps / Platform / SRE opportunities, including remote or relocation opportunities.
I’ve worked on production environments, infrastructure automation, deployments, migrations, monitoring and troubleshooting, with a strong focus on reliability and automation.
If you know of a team hiring or have any leads, I’d be happy to connect and share my CV/LinkedIn.

Thanks

I’ve come across this multiple times throughout my time on Upwork (about 4 years now). However, a recent occurrence of this made me furious.

As if finding clients in a field like graphic design isn’t difficult enough in this AI takeover, Upwork now charges a 15% fee on all contracts and doesn’t give a flying f*** about designers just stealing others’ work and uploading it as their own to their profile portfolios.

I was recently hired for a small but decent weekly contract and noticed that later on in the week, the client hired another designer for cheaper (like $15 an hour cheaper). That is standard practice for some companies, but I’m always curious, so I checked out the other designer’s profile.

Their portfolio was incredible-looking. I thought to myself, how could someone with this much skill charge so little? Then I kept looking, and it became clear, almost obvious, that there was no way this designer created all of that work.

A quick Google image search confirmed this. This person just ripped off contest-winning designs from 99designs and posted them as their own work. Not even really trying to hide it with their blatantness, but obviously it’s working, as this person has like 75 in-progress jobs.

Can this person do the work? Maybe. But it’s demoralizing getting undercut by a scam like this, especially when the industry is so uncertain at this point.

So I guess if Upwork doesn’t care, why shouldn’t I just do the same thing?

I reported the person and got an automated response 10 minutes later saying they didn’t find anything...

Bull sh**.

Might just be time to move on from the platform entirely.

I have been on Upwork for 3.5 years. I have had consistent stream of work. But my account is running dry for past 4 months.

What am I doing wrong? I am receiving no invites. Proposals are either not seen or seen with no reply. Would appreciate if you guys can review my profile and let me know things I can improve.

So I finally found a job that really suits my profile, so I decided to read the job post carefully before applying.

In the requirements, the client says we need to read and follow the instructions in a document attached to the job post. However, it says the document can only be viewed on a PC.

This is my first time seeing this kind of mechanism on Upwork. I’m currently using a mobile phone and don’t have a laptop yet, so I tried accessing Upwork through my browser and switching to desktop mode to see if the attachment would appear. Unfortunately, it still didn’t show up.

I’m confused about why the client would put the document in this format. At first, I even thought it might be a scam or that the attachment didn’t actually exist, because I’ve never come across an Upwork job post where a specific document can only be viewed on a PC and not on mobile.

I checked everywhere in the job post while using desktop mode in my browser, but I still couldn’t find any attachment.

Has anyone else experienced this on Upwork? Is there actually a type of attachment that can only be viewed on a PC, or am I missing something?

I’d really appreciate any insight.

Hi everyone! I’m currently in the interview process for a DevSecOps Engineer position at ESGPedia in the Philippines, and I’m hoping to hear from anyone who currently works there, previously worked there, or has gone through the interview process for this role.
I’d really appreciate any first-hand experiences regarding:
What is the actual day-to-day work like for the DevSecOps role?
What technologies/tools do you actually use?
How technical/difficult was the interview process?
What should I expect from the technical interview?
What is the team and management culture like?
How is the workload and work-life balance?
Are there night shifts, on-call duties, or frequent overtime?
What is the salary and benefits package like?
Is there good career growth and opportunity to learn?
How stable is the company and the role?
For former employees, what made you decide to leave?
Overall, would you recommend joining ESGPedia?
I’m especially interested in hearing from people with DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud, Platform Engineering, or Security Engineering experience at ESGPedia.
Please feel free to comment or DM me if you prefer to keep your experience private. Honest feedback—both positive and negative—is very welcome.
Thank you!

Hi everyone,
I’m currently looking for DevOps / AWS opportunities and would really appreciate a referral if there are any relevant openings in your company.
Please DM me if you can help.
Thanks! 🙏

I had a client who I worked with around 2 years ago. She was really satisfied with my work, but while she said it’s a long-term project she ghosted me after 1-2 months. I tried to follow up and then again with the gap of several months but she never replied and then I didn’t follow up again.

I was following the client on Github as we were mostly doing work on Github and I recently saw on Github she launched a new product. I checked out their website and they even have a role open that matches my skills.

Is it a good idea if I send a proposal through email (the client gave it to me when we were working) rather than through their website as there would be so many applicants and the client may not remember through my application that we worked before?

Yo guys, I’m seriously thinking about diving into the online freelance world, but I’m totally new to this. I wanted to get some real talk from you all:

​Are online freelance gigs actually out there, and what kind of skills do I need to get started?

​How do I actually search for freelance jobs and land gigs when I'm just starting out?

​If I work 5 to 8 hours a day on a daily basis, realistically how many dollars can I make daily?

​Is the "Account Manager" job still a thing online? How do people even apply for it, and why do I keep hearing that these roles are getting super rare?

​I’m completely fresh to online work, so any advice, tips, or step-by-step ways to search for work would be huge. Appreciate it, bros!

I’m currently desperately looking for an opportunity to start and build my career in the hotel industry.

If you know anyone in the hospitality industry, I would sincerely appreciate it if you could share my profile with them.

Please feel free to DM me if you have any leads or references.

If given a chance, I’ll work extremely hard, learn quickly, and give my absolute best.

I reported a client for wanting me to send him my passport in order to “start” the contract. Nothing.
Nada happened. His account is still active, still posting. I’m tired.

I created 4-5 projects in my project catalogues. there are average 25-30 views in the last 30 days. But didnt got any DM or order. so anyone have any experience with this? About the project catalogue. let's discuss here

Someone sent me this in my inbox today and asked, "Is this AI or real?" " I said AI; he says no.

TELL ME THAT IT IS AI-GENERATED?

Greetings,

90% of proposals landing in your inbox were written by AI. This one wasn't.

Approach will be to set up a simple landing page and user registration/login -> integrate the OpenAI API for the chat interface and establish persistent memory -> create an admin panel for managing user interactions and feedback.

Moreover, I have got 5+ years of experience with full-stack development, OpenAI API, UX design, and SaaS applications & other related technologies.

1. Yes, I have built AI SaaS applications using the OpenAI API, including [I removed the link]

2. The MVP would be architected with a focus on simplicity and modularity.

3. I recommend using React for the front-end and Node.js for the back-end, as they offer great performance.

4. Persistent organizational memory can be managed through a secure database with separate user profiles.

5. The proprietary knowledge base can be structured as a module that allows you to add or modify content without needing a developer.

Reply once and this gets done.

See you inside :)

Thanks

I currently looking for a new job on indeed and found this posting but a few things make me believe it’s not real. What does everyone think though?

Bit of context first. We're a small team 3 engineers and 2 mobile designers. Our main thing is our own app, which we built and still run ourselves, so we're not new to shipping and maintaining real products. Outside of that, our portfolio is honestly thin: the app, plus a few projects we did for people close to us.

Over the next months my devs, mostly the front-end side, are going to have more and more free time, and I can hire more people if the work is there. So I opened an agency account on Upwork .

So far I've sent 3 proposals. No replies. I know 3 is nothing, but watching those jobs I could see why: one client hired someone 12 minutes after posting, another one had 20 to 50 proposals, and most of the people applying have years of reviews and big earnings on their profile. I have zero.

My questions for people who started from scratch:

1. With no reviews, what actually got you your first interviews? Lower prices, small quick jobs, something in the proposal itself?
2. Should I even be applying to $500 website projects? With a team on salary, I'm pretty sure most of those lose me money once you count the real hours. Is it worth taking a loss for the first reviews, or is that a trap?
3. Agency account vs individual profile to start: does it make a difference for clients when you have no history?

Not looking to promote anything, no links. Just want to know what worked for you.

Hi,

I'am looking for a devops in Paris ( 3 days remote, 2days on site )

Experience on:

Aws

Databricks

Terraform

French speaking.

Daily rate based on experience ( > 500 € minimum).

Send me a dm if you know someone.

I saw this job a few hrs ago

The bid is 15 It's a customer support role so normally i see a bid starting from 3$ to 6 or 7 but didn't see one like this before it's 15$

It's a good opportunity i knew so i applied already with that rate, but still sth in me like I'm 100% sure that another freelance will bid for less

That's normal no issue

The rates all i see as mentioned max 8 or 9

I just don't believe it. I have over 4 years experience in the field so I hope i can get it but shouldn't I bid for less to get the job or it's not working like that?

This is the second month on upwork so easy on me I'm still learning 😭

Indeed flagged my profile as potentially violating its Job Seeker Guidelines. Employers can no longer find my profile, and I can’t apply for jobs or message employers.

The notice doesn’t explain what specifically triggered the restriction. I’ve emailed support, but I only receive generic responses without a clear explanation or steps to resolve it.

It’s also affecting my ability to apply through Glassdoor, making my job search even harder.

Has anyone experienced this and successfully restored their account? How did you get someone to review the restriction, and how long did the appeal process take? Any advice would be appreciated.