# Backend Engineer - Enterprise

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Tokyo, JP
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

We're seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer to join our Enterprise Agents Engineering Team. As a key member of this team, you will be responsible for building full-stack solutions with ownership of end-to-end product execution from ideation to deployment. You will collaborate closely with your team to incorporate cutting-edge AI advancements into robust and reliable user-centric solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems

- Develop expertise in service observability and reliability best practices

- Operate commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB

- Work hand-in-hand with customers to gather feedback, refine features, and evolve products to address real-world challenges

Requirements:

- Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++

- Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems

- Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices

- Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Expert knowledge of Python

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications

- Expert knowledge of TypeScript

- Expert knowledge of gRPC (unary, response streaming, bi-directional streaming, REST mapping)

- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns

- Track record of delivering user-facing software at scale

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- C++
- service observability
- database management

### Nice to have
- Python
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- gRPC
- LLM APIs

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