Software Engineer - X Data Engineering
xAI· Engineering
Palo Alto, CA$125k - $400kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Data Engineer within SpaceXX product engineering team responsible for building and operating a distributed data platform supporting real-time and batch pipelines, datasets, and data products for multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data powering user-behavior insights and product decisions.
- Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products for cross-team analysis, debugging, and performance improvement.
- Prototype and build tooling to automate internal data workflows—backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve data access.
- Own data correctness end to end: validate with output invariants, denominator reconciliation, independent recomputation, and lead root-cause investigations when metrics shift.
- Move fluidly across query engines and frameworks (e.g., BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse; Flink, Kafka, Spark/Scalding) and adapt to new infrastructure.
- Partner with product and business teams to surface data gaps and prioritize opportunities for data acquisition and improvement.
- Iterate quickly, shipping smallest useful increment with bias toward efficient, accurate, and reliable solutions.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (data engineering or distributed systems).
- Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline toolings and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark/Kafka/Flink/SQL and various storage systems in RMDBs/NoSQL.
- Experience solving large-scale problems and building new systems for future quality improvements.
- Proven ability to translate product requirements into engineering implementation plans and communicate with AI, product, marketing/sales, and engineering teams.
Skills
Required:Python
Nice to have:RustScalaGoJava
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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