Software Engineer, Observability
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own core observability platform powering metrics, logs, tracing and alerting.
- Handle telemetry at massive scale with billions of series and petabytes of logs.
- Help engineering teams catch issues early and drive reliability improvements.
What they offer
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Ideal candidate
A hands-on infrastructure builder who thrives in small, high-ownership teams and cares about reliability at massive scale. You love digging into distributed systems to make debugging effortless for other engineers.
Requirements
- Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a similar languages
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture
- Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases
- Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments
Lab profile
About xAI
Builds AI systems to understand the universe and advance human knowledge.
Known for
- Engineering excellence focus
- Large-scale data center operations