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Software Engineer - Observability, Mid-Level

Jobright.ai, Palo Alto

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Software Engineer - Observability, Mid-Level

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Job Summary:

xAI is a company focused on creating AI systems that enhance human understanding of the universe. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Observability team to build and maintain the observability platform, ensuring system performance and reliability at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing.

• Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes.

• Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services.

• Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company.

• Partner with infrastructure and product teams to deeply integrate observability into our internal platforms.

• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a similar languages

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.

• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.

• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.

• Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases.

• Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.

Company:

XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. xAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Industries

    Software Development

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