Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ABOUT xAI</span></strong></h3> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.</span></p></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE:</strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for exceptional storage &amp; 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.&nbsp;</p> <p>We build and operate:</p> <ul> <li>An exabyte-scale S3-compatible object store</li> <li>A multi-tenant transactional key/value store that serves 100s of millions requests per second</li> <li>A caching tier that serves billions of requests per second</li> <li>A scalable vector database that powers our recommendation systems</li> <li>A few other specialized databases serving hundreds of millions requests per second&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h3>RESPONSIBILITIES:</h