Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure
SpaceXAI · Palo Alto, CA
Posted about 3 months ago · $150,000 - $400,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 84 days SpaceXAI's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 32% of SpaceXAI's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at SpaceXAI
- high 258 stale, 5 reposted of 258 open
- Hiring momentum
- 339 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from SpaceXAI's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for SpaceXAI.
About this role
As a backend engineer at SpaceX, you will design and build scalable systems for search infrastructure that handle high transaction volumes and optimize user engagement. Your role involves deep technical work with search internals and operating production services, ensuring performance and reliability. You will also lead incident responses and contribute to postmortems, aiming for high standards in system operations.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of SpaceXAI as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture
- Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages
- Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar)
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines
- Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality
- Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects
What you get
- $150,000 - $400,000 USD
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies mentioned beyond search and indexing, which may limit exposure to other modern stacks
- High salary range may indicate a competitive environment
- Fast-paced environment with shifting priorities could lead to stress
Summarised from SpaceXAI's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by SpaceXAI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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