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Staff Software Engineer – X Developer Platform
| Company | X |
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| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $265000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Proven Expertise in Designing and Scaling High-Performance APIs
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling RESTful or GraphQL APIs that handle massive throughput (e.g., 100M+ requests/day) and real-time data, with a track record of optimizing for latency, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Deep Mastery of Distributed Systems and Fault-Tolerant Architecture
- Demonstrated expertise in distributed systems design, including hands-on experience with technologies like Kafka, Redis, or Kubernetes, and a history of building fault-tolerant, self-healing systems that maintain 99.99% uptime
- MS or BS in Computer Science
- 8+ years of industry experience building commercial software apps or services
- Exceptional Industry experience with Scala or JVM-based programming language
- Great Distributed Systems experience (Kafka is a requirement)
- Experience working with RPC frameworks (like thrift) and microservices
- Understanding of core CS concepts i.e. common data structures and algorithms
- Experience with front-end development tech (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Responsibilities
- Lead System Design & Architecture: Own the end-to-end technical design and implementation of the X Developer Platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and extensibility for a global user base.
- Drive Technical Strategy: Define and execute the long-term roadmap for developer APIs, infrastructure, and tools, aligning with X’s mission to accelerate human connection and discovery.
- Mentor & Collaborate: Guide a team of engineers through complex technical challenges, fostering a culture of innovation, rigor, quality, and ownership while collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and operations teams.
- Build for Scale: Develop and optimize systems that handle billions of requests, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to support real-time data processing and high-availability services.
- Solve Hard Problems: Tackle ambiguous, high-stakes challenges—think distributed systems, performance bottlenecks, or novel integrations—delivering solutions that set industry benchmarks.
- Influence Company-Wide Impact: Partner with leadership to identify opportunities where the Developer Platform can unlock new capabilities for X’s ecosystem.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong desire to ship incredible products with a fast paced & hardcore eng team
- Eager to build and architect APIs that work with tremendous scale and make it easy for data partners to build new products that enable more innovation.
- You wish to tackle hard product and engineering challenges while working alongside smart and exceptional people with similar skill sets.
- You’re excited to take on complex problems, learn quickly, and persist towards a great solution using First Principles method.
- You are not afraid to make mistakes or remove barriers for team in order to achieve a higher outcome.
- You have experience working with big data processing (Hadoop, Storm, Scalding, Kafka etc) and NoSQL databases.
