Senior Storage Engineer: Scalable

Requirements

• Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 2+ years building storage systems or databases
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• Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
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• Proficient in high performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
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• Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems

• We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month
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• We’re building xAI’s new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction
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• Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems
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• Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers’ latency, availability and data durability requirements
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• Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same
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• Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews
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• Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces
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• Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices
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• Tech Stack:
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• Java, Scala, Rust, Go, C/C++
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• Linux, Kubernetes, Puppet
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• Foundation
  
  DB, Val Key, S3, RockDB, Memcache, Redis, MySQL