Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage
$180k - $440k • Palo Alto, CA
Posted 5d ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
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RAG Engineer
About the job
SpaceXAI is seeking exceptional storage & database engineers to join a new project focused on deeply integrating advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by millions of users monthly. The team is building a new storage tier to power training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction. This involves developing and operating an exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store, a multi-tenant transactional key/value store serving hundreds of millions of requests per second, a caching tier serving billions of requests per second, a scalable vector database for recommendation systems, and other specialized databases.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch new features and improvements to unify common components across storage systems.
- Investigate and resolve performance issues, working with customers to meet their latency, availability, and data durability requirements.
- Lead incident response and recovery efforts, contributing to postmortems and maintaining high standards.
- Collaborate with peers, mentor others, and conduct code and design reviews.
- Develop new skills and learn on the job in evolving technology spaces.
- Make data-driven decisions and adapt to new information for informed choices.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software development experience, with 2+ years in 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.
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Various other discounts and perks