Job Description

xAI is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of their petabyte-to-exabyte scale storage infrastructure supporting large AI training clusters. The role involves deploying, troubleshooting, and optimizing storage for 24/7 AI workloads, collaborating with various engineering teams, and participating in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, maintain, and scale exabyte-scale storage clusters
• Troubleshoot production storage issues across hardware-software stacks
• Collaborate with storage teams to validate server specs and debug field problems
• Evaluate and onboard new storage vendors and technologies
• Support storage SDEs by translating requirements into reliable systems
• Lead hardware refreshes for legacy storage fleets
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-mortems
• Create and maintain documentation and monitoring for storage health

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or storage operations at multi-PB+ scale
• Hands-on experience with storage systems (VAST, DDN, Dell, Lustre, GPFS, Weka)
• Proficiency in scripting (Python/Bash)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across storage hardware and software
• Experience with incident response and on-call rotations
• Basic hardware knowledge for storage bring-up
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Benefits

• No benefits