Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want 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. We’re building xAI’s new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction. 

We build and operate:

• An exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store
• A multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second
• A caching tier that serves billions of requests per second
• A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems
• A few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second   

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.