Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

About the company

xAI is an advanced artificial-intelligence platform developer whose models (including Grok) are being integrated into large-scale infrastructure and, following its sale, SpaceX’s technology ecosystem.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.</span></p></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE:</strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for exceptional storage &amp; database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate SpaceXAI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We’re building a new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction.&nbsp;</p> <p>We build and operate:</p> <ul> <li>An exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store</li> <li>A multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second</li> <li>A caching tier that serves billions of requests per second</li> <li>A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems</li> <li>A few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h3>RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3> <ul> <li>Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems</li> <li>Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers’ latency, availability and data durability requirements.</li> <li>Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same.</li> <li>Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews.</li> <li>Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces.</li> <li>Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices.</li> </ul> <h3>BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:</h3> <ul> <li>Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 2+ years building storage systems or databases.</li> <li>Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality</li> <li>Proficient in high performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages</li> <li>Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems</li> </ul> <h3><strong>COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:</strong></h3> <p>$180,000 - $440,000 USD</p> <p>Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short &amp; long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our </em><em><a href="https://x.ai/legal/recruitment-privacy-notice" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Notice</a>.</em></p></div>