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Senior Backend Engineer, Early Stage Project

X: The Moonshot Factory
Mountain View, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

While this role is based out of Mountain View, CA, we do support remote hiring in Seattle, WA, Austin, TX, and New York, NY.

About the Team :

We are a team of engineers, scientists, and designers dedicated to making housing and development more sustainable and equitable. We are developing novel AI solutions to address complex challenges in these industries to drive greater equity, innovation and efficiency. Currently incubating at X, Alphabet's innovation lab, we are now building the team that will scale our project for global impact. This is a rare opportunity to shape this early stage project in an extremely meaningful way.

The Role :

As a backend infrastructure software engineer you will help the team design & implement scalable, high performance infrastructure. You will be part of a talented, interdisciplinary engineering team helping build an AI platform from the ground up. This is a multifaceted role, part backend engineer, part SRE, part infrastructure. We're looking for someone with a startup ethos who loves wearing multiple hats.

How you will make 10X Impact :

  • Design and implement robust, end to end production-level software to enable inference, optimization, and other complex services as part of a SaaS offering
  • Help build and maintain a stable, efficient CI / CD pipeline
  • Work effectively with cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists, domain experts and PMs.
  • Have strong software engineering / system design skills and being excited about solving complex problems at scale and navigating ambiguity

What you should have :

  • At least 5 years of experience building large, complex software systems and applications
  • Experience with large-scale data processing and modeling, designing backend services and building enterprise / consumer applications
  • Experienced python developer
  • Experience with backend and infra technologies such as Protocol Buffers, gRPC, Pub / Sub, monitoring, Terraform, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, Cloud Functions
  • Experience serving AI workflows for both training and inference
  • Ability to work in small teams / rapid prototyping environment
  • It'd be great if you also had these :

  • Experience building applications and infra leveraging the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stack
  • Experience with building full-stack applications
  • Experience working in a Startup / early stage company with rapidly changing requirements and limited oversight
  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000 - $276,000 bonus equity benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

    Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

    At X, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

    If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at : x-accommodation-request@x.team .

    Salary : $174,000 - $276,000

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