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xAI · 5 months ago

Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

positionPalo Alto, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$180K/yr - $440K/yr
date7+ years exp

xAI is on a mission to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. They are seeking exceptional storage and database engineers to integrate advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users monthly, focusing on building a new storage tier for training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction.

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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

Qualification

C++RustDistributed systemsJavaKubernetesCommunication skillsMentoringProblem-solving

Required

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

Benefits

Equity
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Short & long-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Various other discounts and perks

Company

xAI

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XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities.
dateFounded in 2023
location
Burlingame, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://x.ai

H1B Sponsorship

xAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$42.73B
Key Investors
Neptune Digital AssetsSpaceXMorgan Stanley
2026-01-06Series E· $20B
2025-12-11Secondary Market· $0.3M
2025-07-13Corporate Round· $5.32B

Leadership Team

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Toby Pohlen
Founding Member
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