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Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

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Frontier labonsitesenior$180k–$440k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build new storage tier powering training, inference and real-time extraction.
  • Operate exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store for 600M monthly users.
  • Scale caching tier serving billions of requests per second.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short & long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance

Ideal candidate

Storage-obsessed engineer who thrives in small, flat teams and owns reliability and performance end to end. Curious, hands-on builder who mentors peers and uses data to guide decisions for planet-scale systems.

Requirements

  • 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

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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