Sr. Software Engineer, Data Platform is open at xAI in Palo Alto, CA. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $330K. Posted on Jul 29, 2025, and still on xAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure supporting real-time workloads Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines enabling teams to query, process, and move data at petabyte scale Debug and optimize distributed systems, with a focus on reliability…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on xAI’s careers page.
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