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Software Engineer - X Data Engineering

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

CHECKED 13H AGO

Frontier labonsitemid-level$125k–$400k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build realtime and batch pipelines processing billions of events per day.
  • Own problems end to end, from raw event streams to datasets and metrics.
  • Build tooling and data products used daily by product, growth and safety teams.

What they offer

  • equity
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance

Ideal candidate

Ownership-driven data engineer who thrives in small, flat teams and tackles ambiguous problems end to end. Curious and execution-focused, you care deeply about data correctness and impact.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems
  • Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline tooling and distributed systems
  • Knowledge of realtime and batch processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL and RDBMS/NoSQL storage
  • Experience solving large-scale problems while building new systems and incrementally improving quality
  • Proven ability to translate product requirements into engineering plans and communicate across diverse teams

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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