Sr. Software Engineer, Real-Time Storage

The role

You will build, launch and support storage systems for SpaceXSI's AI infrastructure. The work covers an exabyte-scale object store, key/value and caching tiers, and a vector database used by a platform with around 600 million users per month.

What you will do

• Design, build and launch new features that unify common components across the storage systems
• Investigate performance issues and deliver solutions for customer latency, availability and data durability needs
• Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers
• Review and contribute to incident postmortems
• Mentor peers and take part in code and design reviews
• Develop new skills and learn on the job
• Make decisions based on data and reasoning, and adapt to new information

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math or a technical discipline, OR 5+ years of experience building storage systems or databases in place of a degree
• Experience with high-performance C++, Rust or JVM-based languages

Nice to have

• 7+ years of experience building storage systems or databases
• Obsessed with reliability, performance and quality
• Expertise in building, running and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various discounts and perks

Before you apply

• SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Its teams work on Colossus supercomputers, Grok models and applications including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice and X.