Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage

$180k - $440k Palo Alto, CA

Posted 5d ago

Job Location

Palo Alto, CA

Tech Stack

Remote Work Policy

On-site

Categories

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

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