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Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

xAI· Infrastructure
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Palo Alto, CA$180k - $440kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Engineering role focused on building a real-time storage tier and related storage systems to support SpaceXSI’s AI infrastructure, including an exabyte-scale object store, high-throughput KV store, caching layer, and vector database for large-scale applications and recommendations.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:High performance programmingDistributed 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
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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