xAI
Software Engineer, Observability
$180K–$440K
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 29, 2025
About the job
Build and operate the observability platform that helps engineers monitor, debug, and improve the reliability and performance of systems at scale.
What you'll do
- Design scalable infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing, including high-volume telemetry pipelines.
- Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs for real-time service insights; establish instrumentation, alerting, and reliability practices.
- Integrate observability with internal platforms and own the stack’s reliability, scalability, and performance.
What they ask for
- Production-level experience with Go, Rust, or Scala.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases; operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar environments.
- Distributed systems and telemetry architecture knowledge; large-scale infrastructure experience; familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.
Pay
$180,000 - $440,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Scala, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana
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