Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

X AI
Palo Alto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 440,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Mentorship","Communication","Problem-solving"]

We are seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a new storage tier powering AI infrastructure for hundreds of millions of users. You will develop features across distributed storage systems, optimize latency and durability, lead incident responses, mentor peers, and adapt to evolving technologies in a collaborative, data-driven environment.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
X AI
X AI
1 year ago

Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

âś“ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 2 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

We are seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a new storage tier powering AI infrastructure for hundreds of millions of users. You will develop features across distributed storage systems, optimize latency and durability, lead incident responses, mentor peers, and adapt to evolving technologies in a collaborative, data-driven environment.
Location: Palo Alto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

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, 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 uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews.
  • •Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 440,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityMedicalVisionDental401k

Key Requirements

  • •Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 2+ years building storage systems or databases.
  • •Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
  • •Proficient in high performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages
  • •Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems
  • •Strong collaboration, mentoring, and code/design review skills
Experience:7+ yearsStorageDatabasesDistributed systems
Skills:CollaborationMentorshipCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaScalaRustGoC/C++LinuxKubernetesPuppetFoundationDBValKeyS3RockDBMemcacheRedisMySQL

Company Brief

X AI
Develops advanced artificial intelligence models and research aimed at building safe, general AI and understanding the fundamental nature of the universe. Focuses on large-scale AI systems, research publications, and building foundational AI capabilities.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
Website