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Money Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

X Money is on a mission to be the center of your financial life. We are going to upend legacy financial services, providing products that are cheaper, faster, and better. 

As a Money Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain the live serving infrastructure and database systems that power our ambitious goals. Your work will ensure fault-tolerant, secure operations at scale, enabling fast execution in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate fully-automated, fault-tolerant infrastructure on bare metal Kubernetes
  • Support other engineering teams with infrastructure feature requests and live system debugging
  • Perform scheduled maintenance and cross-region disaster recovery for highly available large-scale distributed production systems
  • Uphold regulatory and compliance standards (specifically PCI) across all levels of infrastructure and applications
  • Collaborate with third-party auditors, consultants, and vendors to meet the above regulatory and compliance standards.

Who You Are

We're seeking exceptional engineers passionate about our mission, with a relentless drive to build the most secure and reliable systems. Ideal candidates bring:

  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm chart construction
  • Administration experience with RDBMS and large-scale data systems (Postgres, FoundationDB, S3, Athena, BigQuery).
  • Advanced Linux systems administration skills with accompanying shell mastery
  • A security-first mindset, demonstrated over several projects
Nice to Have
  • PCI compliance experience, especially audit preparation
  • Experience with CI/CD tools Github Actions and ArgoCD
  • Experience with AWS EKS, RDS, and associated services
  • Experience with IaC tools Terraform and Puppet

We're building an extraordinary team and moving fast. If you're an exceptional engineer who shares our passion for reliability and security, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation Range
$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, 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.

xAI is an equal opportunity employer.

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