xAI is a small, highly motivated team focused on engineering excellence, building a new real-time storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and data extraction for a platform used by around 600 million users monthly. The role involves designing, building, and launching features across multiple storage systems including an exabyte-scale object store, a high‑throughput key/value store, a caching tier, and a scalable vector database, while ensuring reliability, performance, and resilience.
Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage at xAI
On-site - Palo Alto, CA
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USD 180,000 - 440,000
Requirements
Skills
- At least 7 years of experience in software development
- 2+ years building storage systems or databases
- Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
- Proficient in high performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
- Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems
- Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers’ latency, availability and data durability requirements
- Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same
- Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews
- Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces
- Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices
Technologies
C++RustJVM-based languages
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