xAI

Backend Engineer - API

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5 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build the xAI API that serves models to developers worldwide.
  • Own the end-to-end high-throughput inference system, including model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and efficient scaling.
  • Operate the system for billions of tokens per minute with low latency and high availability.

Requirements

  • Expert knowledge of Rust or C++.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices.
  • Experience operating PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and MongoDB.
  • Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks such as SGLang, TensorRT, or vLLM is preferred.
  • Experience designing or building with agent SDKs and agent orchestration frameworks is preferred.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications is preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of gRPC, including unary, response streaming, bi-directional streaming, and REST mapping, is preferred.

Tech Stack

xAI

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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