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      <Title>Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re looking for exceptional storage &amp; database engineers to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI&#39;s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month.</p>
<p>Our team is building xAI&#39;s new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction. This includes an exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store, a multi-tenant transactional key/value store, a caching tier, a scalable vector database, and a few other specialised databases.</p>
<p>Responsibilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems</li>
<li>Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers&#39; latency, availability, and data durability requirements</li>
<li>Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same</li>
<li>Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by doing mentoring, code and design reviews</li>
<li>Be open to develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces</li>
<li>Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices</li>
</ul>
<p>Basic Qualifications:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have at least 7 years of experience in software development, plus 2+ years building storage systems or databases</li>
<li>Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality</li>
<li>Proficient in high-performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages</li>
<li>Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems</li>
</ul>
<p>Compensation and Benefits:</p>
<p>$180,000 - $440,000 USD</p>
<p>Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short &amp; long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.</p>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>staff</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>onsite</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$180,000 - $440,000 USD</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>C++, Rust, JVM-based languages, Distributed systems, Storage systems, Database systems</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>xAI</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/xai.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>xAI creates AI systems to aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The company operates with a flat organisational structure.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://www.xai.com/</Employerwebsite>
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      <Location>Palo Alto, CA</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-18</Postedate>
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