Software Engineer - Product Infrastructure

at X (Twitter)

📍 Palo Alto, United States

USD 127,000-297,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

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Details

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 of 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!

Responsibilities

Architect and develop cutting-edge distributed systems and frameworks that serve as the backbone of our product development ecosystem at X.
Help X product engineering scale new products and features to millions of users.
Create hyper-optimized building blocks that streamline engineering workflows and accelerate product iteration.
Evaluate, productionalize and contribute to modern technologies from the open source space.
Pioneer innovative solutions in:
- Billion scale serverless execution architectures.
- High performance and low latency APIs.
- Cross platform Server-driven UI systems.
- Automatic API generation with seamless client integration.
- Developer tooling and productivity enhancements.

Requirements

At least 2 years of building software applications.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS, CE, EE or the equivalent in experience.
A passion for building systems that empower other engineers.
Demonstrated success with scalable web applications or distributed systems.
Passionate, dedicated, smart but humble, with a bias for action and for enabling others’ success.