# Senior IT Systems Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184,000 - $276,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5071895007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_88ec8f26-4c9

## Description

We're seeking a strategic thinker and proven problem-solver with deep expertise in modern IT ecosystems. As a Sr. IT Systems Engineer, you'll lead the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of core SaaS platforms, including Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Atlassian, and other IT tools. You'll own end-to-end support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of applications, systems, and their complex interconnections,ensuring high availability, security, and seamless user experience.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and implementing SaaS platforms and IT tools

- Providing technical guidance to support business expansion, system scalability, and infrastructure maturity

- Identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities in the environment and leading initiatives to enhance security posture, operational efficiency, and resilience

- Evaluating emerging technologies, IAM trends, and automation platforms and developing business cases and adoption recommendations

- Mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align IT capabilities with organizational goals

Basic qualifications include 8+ years of hands-on experience administering and optimizing a broad portfolio of SaaS applications in a hybrid and high-growth environment, with advanced proficiency in our core stack: Okta (including Advanced Server Access & Workflows), Google Workspace, Slack Enterprise, Atlassian, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Okta
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Atlassian
- IAM principles and protocols
- APIs for custom integrations
- Scripting and automation for monitoring, alerting, and operational efficiency
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP cloud platforms

### Nice to have
- n8n
- Okta Workflows
- Workato
- Zapier
- BetterCloud
- custom integrations