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Software Engineer - Data Platform
Apache KafkaApache FlinkApache SparkRustGoScalaDistributed Systems
About the role
The Data Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure responsible for all large-scale data transport and processing across the company. We own and manage core systems including Apache Kafka, HDFS, Spark, Flink, and Trino, enabling real-time ML pipelines, feed ranking, experimentation, analytics, and observability at petabyte scale. Our team deals with latency-critical workloads, high-throughput streaming, and distributed compute systems that require fault tolerance, performance, and high
Requirements
Proven expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms. Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala or similar systems languages. Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop in production. Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills. Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure. Comfortable working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with minimal guardrails.
About the company
xAI
This company provides frontier AI models for developers, enabling them to build applications powered by reasoning, code, voice, image, and video generation. Their unified API, trained on a massive supercluster, offers a powerful and versatile platform for integrating advanced AI capabilities into various products and solutions.
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