xAI is looking for storage & database engineers to deeply integrate its advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. They are building a new storage tier to power training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction.
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
- Java, Scala, Rust, Go, C/C++
- Linux, Kubernetes, Puppet
- FoundationDB, ValKey, S3, RockDB, Memcache, Redis, MySQL
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems
- Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers’ latency, availability and data durability requirements.
- Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers.
- Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same.
- Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews.
- Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces.
- Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices.
Other
- All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.
- Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence.
- Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.
- All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills.
- They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
