Description
We're looking for exceptional storage & database engineers 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.
Our team is building xAI's new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction. This includes an exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store, a multi-tenant transactional key/value store, a caching tier, a scalable vector database, and a few other specialised databases.
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
Basic Qualifications:
- Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 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
Compensation and Benefits:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, 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.