# Sr. IT Data Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,000 - $260,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior IT Data Engineer at xAI, a company focused on developing AI systems to understand the universe and support human knowledge. The successful candidate will play a key role in our IT Data Engineering team, implementing and supporting applications to meet internal operational needs.

## Responsibilities

- Lead xAI's data strategy by implementing established ETL patterns, creating dependable infrastructure, and reusable components.

- Collaborate with business and engineering teams to prioritize requests and deliver results against time-sensitive priorities.

- Effectively communicate and work in a fast-paced environment.

## Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a related field, preferably Computer Science.

- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in an enterprise environment.

- Strong experience with databases (Vertica, MySQL, or similar) and advanced SQL.

- Java development experience (Spring, JEE/JSE) and proficiency in Python or other modern languages.

- Hands-on experience with integrations, APIs, and message queuing technologies (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Experience working with 3rd party APIs (Salesforce, Workday, etc.).

- Background working in an Agile environment.

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Experience with API Gateways (e.g., Kong), RAML, and REST-based APIs.

- Designing and deploying scalable, reliable, high-volume data integrations and real-time pipelines.

- Big data technologies (Hadoop, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra).

- On-prem and cloud enterprise solutions (Oracle, Salesforce, Workday).

- Scala / Scalding.

- Deep knowledge of access control and data security.

- Leading Data/BI/Analytics projects with a customer-first approach.

- Custom ETL design, implementation, and maintenance.

- Performance monitoring, error logging, and troubleshooting Java applications.

## Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $260,000 USD. Our total rewards package also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- ETL patterns
- databases (Vertica, MySQL)
- advanced SQL
- Java development (Spring, JEE/JSE)
- Python
- integrations
- APIs
- message queuing technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- 3rd party APIs (Salesforce, Workday)
- Agile environment

### Nice to have
- API Gateways (Kong)
- RAML
- REST-based APIs
- scalable data integrations
- real-time pipelines
- big data technologies (Hadoop, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra)
- on-prem and cloud enterprise solutions (Oracle, Salesforce, Workday)
- Scala / Scalding
- access control and data security
- Data/BI/Analytics projects
- custom ETL design
- performance monitoring
- error logging
- troubleshooting Java applications

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