Sr. Software Engineer, Real-Time Storage

SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, REAL-TIME STORAGE

We’re looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate SpaceXSI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We’re building a new storage tier that powers training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction.

We build and operate an exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store, a multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second, a caching tier that serves billions of requests per second, scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems, and a few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems
• Dive into performance issues and work with customers and deliver solutions to cater to customers’ latency, availability and data durability requirements
• Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers
• Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same
• Work in a collaborative environment and up-level your peers by doing mentoring and code and design reviews
• Develop new skills and learn on the job as we navigate new technology spaces
• Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or technical discipline; OR 5+ years of experience in software development building storage systems or databases in lieu of a degree
• Experience with high-performance C++, Rust, or JVM-based languages

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 7+ years of experience in software development building storage systems or databases
• Obsessed with reliability, performance, and quality
• Expertise in building, running, and operating scalable and resilient distributed systems

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$180,000 - $330,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.