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xAIxAIPalo Alto, CA

Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

Build and operate exabyte-scale storage systems including object stores, key/value stores, caching tiers, and vector databases for AI infrastructure serving massive request volumes. Requires 7+ years software experience with 2+ in storage/databases, expertise in high-performance languages like C++/Rust and distributed systems.

180k – 440k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems
  • Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers' latency, availability and data durability requirements
  • Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same
  • Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews
  • Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces
  • Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices

Who You Are

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

Tech Stack

Java, Scala, Rust, Go, C/C++, Linux, Kubernetes, Puppet, FoundationDB, ValKey, S3, RockDB, Memcache, Redis, MySQL

Compensation

Annual Salary Range: $180,000 - $440,000 USD

Benefits: Equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k), short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various perks.

Skills

C++RustJavaScalaGoKubernetesLinuxFoundationdbS3RockdbRedisMemcacheMySQLValkeyPuppet
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