Software Engineer Real Time Storage

2 weeks agoLeadSalary: 180K - 440KPalo Alto, USABackendJobs by SpaceXAI

SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.

Austin, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will design, build, and launch production storage-system features. You will solve performance issues and customer requirements for latency, availability, and durability. You will lead incident response, contribute to postmortems, mentor peers, and review code and designs.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of software development experience
  • 2+ years building storage systems or databases
  • High-performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
  • Scalable and resilient distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and launch production storage-system features and improvements
  • Solve performance issues and customer latency, availability, and durability requirements
  • Lead incident response and recovery
  • Contribute to incident postmortems
  • Mentor peers and conduct code and design reviews
  • Ground decisions in data and reasoning

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