~7mo ago
$180,000 - $440,000 USD/yr

Software Engineer, Real-Time Storage

United StatesUnited States·Palo Altolead
OtherDevOps & InfrastructureSoftware EngineerMember Of Technical StaffSoftware Engineering
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Overview

ABOUT xAI xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

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,…

Technical Tools
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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate SpaceXSI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We’re building a 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, scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems, and a few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second. 

Responsibilities

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  • →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 up-level your peers by doing mentoring and code and design reviews
  • →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

Requirements

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

What We Offer

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$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, 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.

SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Palo Alto, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US
Listed under
United States

About this job

Pay per year
$180,000–$440,000 a year
63% above the $190,000 median for Software Engineer jobs on Jobera (6,668 salaries).
Who can apply
United States
Posted
216 days ago
Employer
has 307 open jobs on Jobera in 7 countries.

Listing Details

First seen
March 26, 2026
Last seen
October 29, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
216
Repost count
0
Trust Level
42%
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October 29, 2026

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Software Engineer, Real-Time Storage$180,000 - $440,000 USD