Software Engineer - Compute

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Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Who We Are:

X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

Compute team, responsible for providing X Engineering with an approachable, productive, and reliable compute platform. Our infrastructure powers most of the services behind X.com, X’s revenue-generating businesses, and a variety of internal infrastructure and has the largest server footprint in our datacenters. X’s hundreds of engineers use our compute platform to launch and operate their services on a fleet consisting of 100,000s of servers.

Despite being a small team, our compute platform is built using the largest Aurora/Mesos clusters in the world. Therefore we need to build software that is highly scalable, reliable, cost efficient, and operationally automated.

We also have a more nascent Kubernetes platform, which in the long run we’d like to transition towards. However, this comes with significant technical challenges given the maturity and scale of our current Aurora/Mesos clusters; we would be running one of the largest Kubernetes environments in the world.

Who You Are:

We are looking for talented engineers who draw motivation from building infrastructure and platforms that help others be more productive. We’re not working on a traditional consumer product, but we are building the platform that other teams will use to build and run the X product. You favor sustainable, scalable, and automation-focused approaches to the systems you design and build. You’re comfortable iterating quickly and experimenting when exploring a new problem, but you know when and how to invest in automating and documenting your work so it’s discoverable and useful to others. You are curious and driven to understand new technical spaces and problems. You are an engaged and thoughtful collaborator, ready to solve challenging problems with your peers. Quality and reliability are key pillars in your software engineering philosophy.

What You’ll Do:

In this role, you will:

• Participate in building and operating the mission-critical compute infrastructure that powers X.
• Participate in systems review processes, growing into system design contributions.
• Actively engage in knowledge sharing - great documentation is really important, and we should have that for the folks who operate the platform, and for the customers who rely on our product.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in languages like Java, C++, Python, Golang, Scala
• Experience with cluster management and containerization technologies is very helpful (e.g. kubernetes, docker, mesos, borg)
• Independent learning capabilities for new technologies
• Extremely committed, willing to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.