# Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

**Company:** [xAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xai)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $440k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** C++, Rust, Java, Scala, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Foundationdb, S3, Rockdb, Redis, Memcache, MySQL, Valkey, Puppet
**Posted:** 2026-03-06

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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