Software Engineer (Real-Time Storage)

• We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month
• We’re building xAI’s new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction
• 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
• We build and operate:
• An exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store
• A multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second
• A caching tier that serves billions of requests per second
• A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems
• A few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage
• Life and family: Life and AD&D insurance and fertility benefits to ensure our team’s well-being and peace of mind
• Flexible vacation: We work hard but avoid burn out. Take time off when you need it
• Visa sponsorship: We support international talent with visa sponsorship to join our team
• 401(k) plan: Retirement savings plan to secure your financial future

• Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems
• Proficient in high performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
• Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
• Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 2+ years building storage systems or databases