Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage
xAI - Palo Alto, CA
Posted Jul 30, 2025
Benefits
- Parental leave
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- Non-birth-parent leave
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- Family-building benefits
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- Fertility benefits: Not verified
- Adoption assistance: Not verified
- Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
- Mental health support
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- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
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- Learning budget
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- Salary
- $180K-$440K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
166% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
Role
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- Weekend work
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Company
- Equity
- Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage Palo Alto, CA ABOUT xAI xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We're looking for exceptional storage & database engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We're building xAI's 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 - A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems - 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
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