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Software Engineer - X Data

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2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$125k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data.
  • Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products for analysis, debugging, and product improvement.
  • Build tooling to automate internal data workflows such as backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-service data access.
  • Own data correctness through output invariants, denominator reconciliation, independent recomputation, and root-cause investigations.
  • Select and adapt across query engines and streaming and batch frameworks to support distributed data workloads.
  • Partner with product and business teams to identify data gaps and prioritize data acquisition and improvement opportunities.
  • Ship efficient, accurate, and reliable incremental solutions based on feedback.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems.
  • Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go, or Java, along with data pipeline tooling and distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of realtime and batch processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, and SQL, plus relational database and NoSQL storage systems.
  • Experience solving large-scale problems and delivering incremental quality improvements while building new systems.
  • Ability to translate product requirements into engineering implementation plans and communicate effectively with AI, product, marketing, sales, and engineering groups.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Various discounts and perks

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkClickHouseGoGoogle BigQueryJavaPythonRustScalaSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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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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