Backend Engineer, SpaceXAI

• Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++,
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems,
• Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices,
• Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and MongoDB

Desirable

• In this role you will work on xAI's production systems that power grok.com and the API. The actual team matching will happen at the offer stage
• As an ideal candidate you have a good understanding of how highly scalable and reliable production infrastructure is built
• You strive for perfection and listen carefully to your users in order to solve any pain points they might experience
• Most of our backend infrastructure is written in Rust. So familiarity with a compiled language such as C++, Rust, or Go is highly beneficial

• After submitting your application, the team reviews your statement of exceptional work and CV
• If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15 minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic technical questions
• If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of at least two technical interviews:
• Coding interview in Rust or C++
• Distributed systems design interview