# Software Engineer - X Developer Platform

**Company:** [xAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xai)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $440k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Kafka, rpc, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Build and evolve scalable APIs, services, and developer-platform capabilities for X, collaborating across engineering, product, business, and customer teams. The role requires 5+ years of commercial software experience, distributed systems and microservices expertise, frontend familiarity, and cloud experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering, product leadership, business leadership, and engineers across the company.
- Maintain and improve systems serving existing customers while designing and shipping new platform products.
- Design clean, reliable, well-abstracted solutions for problems involving scale, correctness, and developer experience.
- Help shape the platform architecture as it grows to serve new consumer categories, including agents and automated systems.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science.
- 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial software applications or services.
- Experience with distributed systems; Kafka experience is a plus.
- Experience working with RPC frameworks and microservices.
- Understanding of core computer science concepts, including common data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with frontend development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with cloud platforms and services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary of **$180,000–$440,000 USD**.
- Equity.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Various discounts and perks.

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