# 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, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Git
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Build and operate high-performance, large-scale storage systems (200PB+) for Hugging Face's AI platform. Contribute to open-source Rust xet-core and backend services; requires 8+ years scaling distributed systems with strong low-level programming skills (Rust preferred).

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute to xet-core, our open-source project written in Rust that powers hf-xet -- the Python library underpinning the Hugging Face Hub client and the wider ecosystem of open-source tools.
- Design, build, and operate meaningful and challenging features in the Xet Storage backend.
- Work across two closely connected surfaces: the open-source xet-core and the Xet Storage backend.
- Build and operate production systems software at enormous scale (200PB+ of ML & AI assets).
- Take ownership end-to-end in a high-trust, low-process, async, and remote environment.
- Leverage the latest AI tools to move fast.

## Requirements
- 8+ years building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure.
- Proficiency in a low-level systems language, with Rust strongly preferred (we also work in Python, Typescript, Go, and C++ across the stack).
- Track record of working independently in a high-trust, low-process environment.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, async, and fully remote environment.
- Passion for building simple, robust, and scalable systems relied on by engineering and science teams around the world.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience designing efficient, high-performance, fault-tolerant data storage and retrieval systems.
- Experience operating production systems -- monitoring, alerting, and distributed debugging and recovery.
- Familiarity with git internals, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes), databases (relational and non-relational), or networking.

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