X Infrastructure Engineer

About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. 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.

All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

X Money is on a mission to be the center of your financial life. We are going to upend legacy financial services, providing products that are cheaper, faster, and better.

As a Money Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain the live serving infrastructure and database systems that power our ambitious goals. Your work will ensure fault-tolerant, secure operations at scale, enabling fast execution in a collaborative environment.

• Design, implement, and operate fully-automated, fault-tolerant infrastructure using modern container-native solutions.
• Support other engineering teams with infrastructure feature requests, live system debugging, and on-call rotations.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and cross-region failover for production systems.
• Uphold security and reliability standards across all levels of infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with third-party auditors, consultants, and vendors to meet technical compliance and industry best practices.

We're seeking exceptional engineers passionate about our mission, with a relentless drive to build the most secure and reliable systems. Ideal candidates bring:

• Experience with Golang, Python, or Shell languages.
• Expertise in highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and CI/CD (e.g., Github Actions, ArgoCD).
• Strong knowledge in cloud platforms like GCP or AWS, covering infrastructure, networking, and services.
• Proficiency with RDBMS and large-scale data systems (MySQL, Presto, S3, Athena, Big Query).
• A security-first mindset

Compensation Range: $180,000 - $440,000

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

xAI is an equal opportunity employer.