Low-level Senior Software Engineer, Xet Storage - EMEA Remote
Hugging Face1 month ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the open-source xet-core project written in Rust.
- Design and build challenging, high-performance features for the Xet Storage backend.
- Operate scalable production storage systems and take ownership of systems end to end.
- Support storage infrastructure used by Hugging Face’s models, datasets, Spaces, and open-source ecosystem.
- Work independently in a high-trust, low-process, async environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure.
- Proficiency in a low-level systems language, with Rust strongly preferred.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and take end-to-end ownership.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, async, fully remote environment.
- Passion for building simple, robust, and scalable systems.
- Preferred: experience designing efficient, high-performance, fault-tolerant data storage and retrieval systems.
- Preferred: experience operating production systems, including monitoring, alerting, distributed debugging, and recovery.
- Preferred: familiarity with Git internals, cloud infrastructure, databases, or networking.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Flexible working hours and remote work options.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
- Parental leave and flexible paid time off.
- Remote employees may visit the company’s NYC and Paris offices.
- Workstation equipment will be provided if needed.
- Company equity is included as part of the compensation package.
- Full-time EMEA remote position.