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

Software Engineer, Observability

United StatesUnited States·Palo Altolead
OtherSoftware 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 and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing. Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes.

Technical Tools
grafanakafkakubernetesprometheusredisrustscaladistributed-systems

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.

The Observability team builds and operates the core infrastructure that enables engineers to monitor, debug, and optimize the performance and reliability of their systems. We handle telemetry at massive scale — billions of time series and petabytes of logs — with strict performance and availability requirements.

You will be part of the small, high-impact team responsible for building and maintaining SpaceXSI's observability platform. You’ll own critical systems that power metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting enabling engineering teams to operate services at scale, identify issues before they impact users, and drive systemic reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

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  • →Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing
  • →Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes
  • →Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services
  • →Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company
  • →Partner with infrastructure and product teams to deeply integrate observability into our internal platforms
  • →Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end

Requirements

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  • Experience with production-level Go, Rust, or Scala
  • Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases
  • Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale
  • Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse

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
64% above the $189,182 median for Software Engineer jobs on Jobera (6,747 salaries).
Who can apply
United States
Posted
218 days ago
Employer
has 309 open jobs on Jobera in 7 countries.

Listing Details

First seen
March 26, 2026
Last seen
October 31, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
218
Repost count
0
Trust Level
42%
Scored at
October 31, 2026

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Software Engineer, Observability$180,000 - $440,000 USD