Low-level Senior Software Engineer, Xet Storage - US Remote

Hugging Face • New York, NY

11d • Remote

About The Position

This role is on the Xet Storage team, responsible for the storage system behind Hugging Face, which currently stores over 200PB of ML & AI assets and is growing rapidly. Xet is the underlying storage architecture for the entire Hugging Face platform and community. In this role, you will contribute to xet-core, an open-source project in Rust that powers the Python library for the Hugging Face Hub client and other community tools. You will also design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend, contributing to the broader Infrastructure organization. The team operates in a high-trust, low-process, async, and remote environment, leveraging AI tools to accelerate development. This position is ideal for individuals who enjoy writing low-level, high-performance code and are motivated by the challenges of large-scale, scalable services. Experience building and operating production systems software is typically expected, but all applicants are considered individually.

Requirements

• 8+ years building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure.
• Proficiency in a low-level systems language, with Rust strongly preferred.
• A track record of working independently in a high-trust, low-process environment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and taking ownership end to end.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, async, and fully remote environment.
• A passion for building simple, robust, and scalable systems relied on by engineering and science teams around the world.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing efficient, high-performance, fault-tolerant data storage and retrieval systems.
• Experience operating production systems -- monitoring, alerting, and distributed debugging and recovery.
• Familiarity with git internals, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes), databases (relational and non-relational), or networking.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to xet-core, the open-source Rust project powering the Hugging Face Hub client.
• Design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend.
• Operate in a high-trust, low-process, async, and remote environment.
• Leverage the latest AI tools to move fast.
• Write low-level, high-performance code.
• Build and operate large-scale, scalable services.

Benefits

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• Flexible working hours.
• Remote options.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents.
• Parental leave.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Company equity as part of their compensation package.
• Opportunity to visit offices in NYC and Paris.
• Workstation setup if needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed