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Member of Technical Staff - Observability

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5 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing.
  • Build high-performance telemetry pipelines capable of handling massive ingestion volumes.
  • Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that provide real-time service insights.
  • Define and enforce company-wide best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability.
  • Integrate observability deeply with infrastructure, product teams, and internal platforms.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end to end.

Requirements

  • Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a similar language.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.
  • Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time-series databases.
  • Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaClickHouseGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusRedisRustScala

Categories

BackendDevOpsSite Reliability
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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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