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Software Engineer, Observability

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3 days ago
Memphis, TN, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant real-time data ingestion pipelines for high-volume infrastructure telemetry.
  • Develop frontend visualizations, interactive dashboards, and UI components for operators, capacity planners, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Design, build, and operate production systems spanning user interfaces, APIs, data pipelines, authentication, monitoring, alerting, and on-call operations.
  • Build repair trackers, vendor RMA workflows, operational infrastructure, and integrations with ticketing, inventory, telemetry, and vendor systems.
  • Automate cluster monitoring and improve anomaly detection accuracy while maintaining uptime, data integrity, reconciliation, access control, and safe deployments.
  • Work directly with users and cross-functional teams to investigate operational problems and improve GPU uptime.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or another STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional software development experience, or 5+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Programming experience in Python, Rust, C++, Java, or similar languages.
  • Experience with Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar database management systems.
  • Ownership of correctness-sensitive systems such as state machines, workflows, or operational data with real-world impact.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Preferred experience includes observability, telemetry, real-time analytics, time-series or analytical databases, streaming pipelines, dashboards, alerting, frontend development, multi-service mission-critical systems, cloud or on-premise operations, Docker, Kubernetes, automated deployments, internal platforms, HPC, supercomputing, industrial/OT data, and power or cooling telemetry.
  • Master's degree in computer science or a related field is preferred.
  • Ability to work extended hours or weekends as needed for mission-critical deadlines and participate in a weeklong rotational on-call schedule.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAngularC++ClickHouseDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaInfluxDBJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactRustSplunk

Categories

BackendData EngineeringFrontend
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About xAI

1,001-5,000 employees

Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers

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