Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage

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

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We’re building xAI’s new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction.

We build and operate:

An exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store

A multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second

A caching tier that serves billions of requests per second

A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems