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Software Engineer, Observability

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

CHECKED 14H AGO

Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
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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
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