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Software Engineer - X Developer Platform

xAI· Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$180k - $440kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and maintaining the X Developer Platform APIs and ecosystem, enabling developers and agents to build on top of X with scalable, reliable, and well-documented APIs and tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineering, product leadership, business leadership, and engineers across the company.
  • Maintain and improve the systems that serve existing customers while designing and shipping new products that expand what the platform can do.
  • Design clean, reliable, well-abstracted solutions to problems of scale, correctness, and developer experience.
  • Help shape the architecture of the platform as it grows to serve new categories of consumers, including agents and automated systems.

Qualifications

  • MS or BS in Computer Science
  • 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial software application or services
  • Distributed Systems experience (Kafka experience is a plus)
  • Experience working with RPC frameworks and microservices
  • Understanding of core CS concepts, such as, common data structures and algorithms
  • Experience with front-end development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

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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