# Low-Level Senior Software Engineer, Xet Storage

**Company:** [Hugging Face](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hugging-face)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go, C++, Distributed Systems, Storage Systems, Networking, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Git Internals, Databases, Monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Build and operate low-level, high-performance storage infrastructure at massive scale, contributing to the Rust-based xet-core project and Xet Storage backend. The role requires 8+ years of distributed systems, storage, or networking experience and strong independent execution.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute to **xet-core**, an open-source Rust project powering `hf-xet`, the Python library underpinning the Hugging Face Hub client and related open-source tools.
- Design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend.
- Build and operate production systems software at large scale.
- Develop simple, robust, and scalable systems used by engineering and science teams.
- Work independently and take ownership of projects end to end in a high-trust, low-process environment.
- Monitor, alert, debug, and recover distributed production systems.

## Requirements
- **8+ years** building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure.
- Proficiency in a low-level systems language; **Rust** is strongly preferred.
- Experience working independently in ambiguous, fast-moving, asynchronous, and fully remote environments.
- Passion for building high-performance, robust, and scalable systems.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing efficient, high-performance, fault-tolerant data storage and retrieval systems.
- Experience operating production systems, including monitoring, alerting, distributed debugging, and recovery.
- Familiarity with Git internals.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, databases, or networking.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
- Parental leave and flexible paid time off.
- Flexible working hours and remote work options.
- Opportunity to visit office spaces in NYC and Paris; workstation outfitting is available when needed.
- Company equity for all employees.

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