X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API

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About the Role

X Developer Platform is responsible for the partner ecosystem of B2B and B2C developers that build solutions using X’s extensive API set. With more than 500 million active users and billions of posts per week, X offers robust, real-time and historical data, insights and engagement opportunities across a wide range of organizations and industries. The team helps collect, process, enrich and deliver hundreds of billions of signals a day through the X API platform.

The organization’s mission broadly is to achieve the state of X, “The Everything App”, and be the clear digital townsquare of Earth. This includes making the ever-expanding universe of social media data available via an extensive API suite with consistent and reliable architecture.

You will be an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer working at the intersection of deep technical implementation and world-class developer experience. In this hands-on role, you will:

• Build production solutions for Enterprise customers
• Create sample apps for both Enterprise and Indie developers
• Improve DevEx tools (SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, sandbox environments, and more)
• Author comprehensive how-to-guides with an emphasis for X API + Agentic/AI use cases and integrations

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Enterprise customers to understand their business needs and rapidly build production-grade solutions, prototypes, integrations, and accelerators using the X API platform.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality sample applications, starter kits, reference implementations, and code examples for both Enterprise teams and Indie developers to accelerate adoption and showcase best practices.
• Build, enhance, and ship developer experience tools such as SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, Sandbox/Test Environments, and other internal/external tooling that improves developer productivity and ease of use.
• Research, write, and continuously improve comprehensive how-to guides, tutorials, cookbook recipes, technical blogs, and educational content, with special emphasis on X API integrations, real-time data, AI Agents, LLMs, and emerging use cases.
• Continuously audit and elevate documentation, onboarding flows, code samples, and overall accessibility for X API products.
• Gather real-world feedback from customers and the broader developer community, advocate for their needs internally, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap and feature prioritization.
• Diagnose complex technical issues, bugs, and edge cases; provide expert-level troubleshooting, workarounds, and long-term solutions, and turn learnings into public guides and tooling improvements.
• Streamline support processes and create scalable materials that close knowledge gaps and accelerate success for both managed partners and self-serve developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (partner engineering, solutions architecture, developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, or similar) working directly with enterprise customers.
• Ability to write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, etc.), with a proven track record of shipping production-quality software, sample apps, prototypes, and developer tools.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, REST/GraphQL, real-time streaming systems, authentication, and modern AI/agent workflows.
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing assets: sample applications, reference implementations, DevEx tools, and high-quality technical documentation/guides.
• Deep, genuine passion for developer experience (DevEx) and removing friction through better docs, tools, and accessible APIs.
• Ability to work comfortably with diverse stakeholders (software developers, product managers, technical executives, and business leaders) to define and deliver shared objectives.
• Excellent project management skills to scope, execute, and drive initiatives autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including translating complex technical topics into clear, engaging documentation and presentations.
• Strong attention to detail and a solution-oriented mindset.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous experience building or significantly contributing to developer platforms, tools, SDKs, interactive playgrounds, or educational content.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI/Agent frameworks, LLM integrations, or building AI-powered applications on top of data APIs.
• Industry experience in social media, enterprise software, data analytics, real-time/streaming data, or related spaces.
• Strong familiarity with Rust, Scala (ideally), or JVM-based programming languages.
• A public portfolio of sample apps, open-source contributions, technical blogs, guides, or DevEx tools.

Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is part of a total rewards package at SpaceXAI, 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.