xAI is looking to build and maintain advanced systems to ensure compliance with X's Terms of Service and safeguard users from threats like abuse, spam, and fraud.
Requirements
- 5+ years in software engineering roles, with a focus on backend or data systems
- Proven experience building and operating scalable software services
- Strong generalist skills, with familiarity in distributed systems
- Familiarity with safety or security challenges in large-scale platforms, such as abuse detection or fraud prevention.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives or drive cross-functional collaboration in dynamic settings.
- Primarily in Scala and Go, utilizing Map-Reduce frameworks like Scalding and scripting in Python.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend and data systems to support high-scale event processing for abuse detection, spam remediation, child safety, and related safety tooling.
- Architect scalable distributed systems capable of processing thousands of events per second to mitigate platform threats.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to address complex safety challenges and drive impactful solutions.
- Write clean, efficient code primarily in Scala and Go, utilizing Map-Reduce frameworks like Scalding and scripting in Python.
- Exercise autonomy in designing new systems and iterating on existing ones to achieve step-wise improvements in safety and performance.
- Potentially lead technical initiatives in critical areas such as payments risk or abuse mitigation.
Other
- Skilled and autonomous Software Engineer
- Generalists who thrive in fast-paced, 0-to-1 environments
- Prioritize shipping impactful code
- Passionate about delivering real-world results through engineering excellence.
- Enjoyment of 0-to-1 environments, where you trail blaze novel engineering solutions
