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Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

SpaceXSI - Palo Alto, CA - original posting ->
Status
Open
Remote policy
Not stated
Employment type
Not stated
Salary
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Categories
Engineering
Tech
elasticsearchcpprustdevops
Source
xai
First observed
2026-08-18 21:02 UTC
Last seen
2026-10-13 05:08 UTC
Source claims posted
2026-08-06 01:04 UTC
Consecutive misses
0 of 3

What the posting says

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to understand the universe and help expand humanity’s knowledge and capabilities. We work across the full Super Intelligence stack: compute (Colossus supercomputers), models (Grok), and applications (Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X). We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization. You’ll work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions, optimizes user acquisition and retention, and enables creators to earn a living through their content. This is a unique opportunity to make a large-scale revenue impact while creating products that users and businesses love.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design and build large scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) that handles massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements

Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of the core search infrastructure

Operate production services end to end, including monitoring, debugging, incident response, and performance optimization

Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture.

Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages

Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why

Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines

Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality

Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them

Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

$150,000 - $400,000 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.

SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Quality

Completeness: 45%
Honesty: 100%

Based on 17 observation(s).

Timeline

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    #161880 2026-08-18 21:02 UTC
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      SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our...->SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where...
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    #1314354 2026-10-13 05:08 UTC
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      SpaceXAI->SpaceXSI