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Software Engineer, Data Platform

xAI
Location
Palo Alto, California
Work mode
Remote
Type
full time
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[ About this role ]

Software Engineer, Data Platform at Cabana in Palo Alto, California. This role involves designing, building, and operating distributed systems for large-scale data transport and processing, including core systems like Kafka, HDFS, Spark, Flink, and Trino. The engineer will focus on high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion, scaling Kafka infrastructure, and optimizing Spark for real-time ML pipelines and other data workloads.

Skills and focus areas

  • data platform
  • distributed systems
  • apache kafka
  • hdfs
  • spark
  • flink
  • trino
  • high-throughput
  • low-latency
  • real-time ml pipelines
  • fault tolerance
  • performance optimization

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