xAI Senior Software Engineer focused on building and operating real-time storage systems powering AI infrastructure for hundreds of millions of users. Responsible for designing new features, improving performance, and leading incident responses.
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 up-level your peers by doing mentoring and code and design reviews
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
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExperience with high-performance C++Obsessed with reliabilityExpertise in building
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or technical discipline; OR 5+ years of experience in software development building storage systems or databases in lieu of a degree
Experience with high-performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
Preferred
7+ years of experience in software development building storage systems or databases
Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems
