# Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4803862007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_22bcbb50-ef4

## Description

## About the Role

The Data Platform team at xAI builds and operates the infrastructure responsible for all large-scale data transport and processing across the company.

As a software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed systems powering X's data movement and compute.

## Responsibilities

- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems.

- Scale and optimise multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure supporting real-time workloads.

- Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines.

- Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines enabling teams to query, process, and move data at petabyte scale.

- Debug and optimise distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and performance under load.

- Collaborate with ML, product, and infrastructure teams to unblock critical data workflows.

## Basic Qualifications

- Proven expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms.

- Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala or similar systems languages.

- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop in production.

- Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimisation skills.

- Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure.

- Comfortable working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with minimal guardrails.

## Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at X, which 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
- Rust
- Go
- Scala
- Kafka
- Flink
- Spark
- Trino
- Hadoop
- distributed systems
- stream processing
- large-scale data platforms