Backend Engineer - Enterprise

xAI xAI · AI Frontier · Tokyo, Japan · Product

Backend Engineer for the Enterprise Agents Engineering Team at xAI, focusing on building full-stack solutions that integrate with systems, orchestrate workflows, and use AI to transform business operations. The role involves end-to-end product execution, customer collaboration, and iterative development.

What you'd actually do

  1. integrating with messy systems
  2. orchestrating complex workflows
  3. harnessing AI to transform business operations
  4. build full-stack solutions with ownership of end-to-end product execution
  5. collaborating closely with our team to incorporate cutting-edge AI advancements into robust and reliable user-centric solutions

Skills

Required

  • Rust
  • C++
  • distributed systems
  • service observability
  • reliability best practices
  • PostgreSQL
  • Clickhouse
  • CockroachDB

Nice to have

  • Python
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • TypeScript
  • gRPC
  • LLM APIs
  • embeddings
  • RAG patterns
  • user-facing software at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++
  • Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems
  • Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices
  • Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns
  • Track record of delivering user-facing software at scale

Other signals

  • integrating with messy systems
  • orchestrating complex workflows
  • harnessing AI to transform business operations
  • build full-stack solutions
  • ownership of end-to-end product execution
  • incorporate cutting-edge AI advancements
  • iterative development process
  • work hand-in-hand with customers
  • gather feedback
  • refine features
  • evolve products
  • address real-world challenges