Member Of Technical Staff - Data Platform

xAI

Palo Alto, CA, United States
$180,000 - $440,000 usd; not specified; comprehens...
On-site
Distributed systems
Stream processing
Large-scale data platforms
xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Data Platform team in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves designing and operating distributed systems for large-scale data transport and processing, requiring expertise in stream processing and proficiency in systems programming languages

Job Summary

  • The Data Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure responsible for all large-scale data transport and processing across the company, enabling real-time ML pipelines, feed ranking, experimentation, analytics, and observability at petabyte scale.
  • As a software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed systems powering X’s data movement and compute, taking ownership of infrastructure components that process trillions of events daily.
  • Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at X, 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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xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Data Platform team in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves designing and operating distributed systems for large-scale data transport and processing, requiring expertise in stream processing and proficiency in systems programming languages.

Salary

$180,000 - $440,000 USD; Not specified; 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

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • distributed systems
  • stream processing
  • large-scale data platforms
  • high-throughput low-latency systems
  • multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure
  • Spark Flink Trino optimization

Nice-to-have

  • engineering excellence
  • curiosity driven
  • flat organizational structure
  • strong communication skills
  • fast-moving high-stakes environments

Key Requirements

  • Proven expertise in distributed systems
  • Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop
  • Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills
  • Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure

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