Software Engineer - Storage

at X (Twitter)

📍 Palo Alto, United States

USD 70,000-297,000 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 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

Design, build and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems.
Dive into performance issues and work with customers to deliver solutions catering to customers’ latency, availability, and data durability requirements.
Actively collaborate with partner teams and our customers to build and deliver features and integrations that will allow us to store and retrieve data that is compliant with Privacy and Data Protection standards.
Help us containerize X-scale database services which will be the largest stateful workloads to run on Kubernetes in a datacenter hosted environment.
Demonstrate ownership of the services you build by going on call and leading initiatives to improve service reliability.
Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same.
Work in a collaborative environment and uplevel your peers by mentoring, conducting code and design reviews.
Be open to developing new skills and learning on the job as we navigate new technology spaces.
Ground your decisions with data and reasoning and adapt to new information to make informed choices.

Requirements

B.S.+ in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
3+ years of experience in software engineering.
Experience with building or operating distributed systems, and asynchronous programming.
Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background.
Model of software engineering best practices, including agile development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.
An understanding of continuous integration and a strong drive toward automation.
Proficient in multi-threading, scaling, concurrency, caching, queuing, and RPC.
A strong reliability-first mindset.
Previous experience with storage systems and Kubernetes is a plus.
Familiarity with JVM-based languages is a plus.