Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering (X)
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
Frontier labonsitesenior$180k–$330k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own data platform powering hundreds of pipelines processing billions of events daily.
- Build shared datasets powering user-behavior insights and product decisions.
- Run like an internal startup owning problems end to end from streams to metrics.
What they offer
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Ideal candidate
Seasoned data-minded software engineer who thrives owning ambiguous problems end to end and obsesses over data correctness. You move fast, iterate on feedback, and love turning messy event streams into trusted insights for product teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience with Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline toolings and distributed systems
- Software engineering experience in data engineering or distributed systems
- Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark/Kafka/Flink/SQL and various storage systems
- Proven record interpreting product requirements into engineering plans and communicating across 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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