Software Engineer Data Platform
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate distributed systems for large-scale data movement and compute. You will create high-throughput ingestion systems, scale Kafka infrastructure, tune processing engines, build data interfaces and pipelines, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate on critical data workflows.
Requirements
- Expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms
- Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala, or similar systems languages
- Production experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop
- Debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills
- Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems
- Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure
- Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for production pipelines
- Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines for petabyte-scale data processing
- Debug and optimize distributed systems for reliability and performance
- Collaborate with ML, product, and infrastructure teams on data workflows
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Discounts and perks