# Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage

**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/4805886007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_369bdc50-553

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Rust
- JVM-based languages
- Distributed systems
- Storage systems
- Database systems