Low-level Senior Software Engineer, Xet Storage - EMEA Remote
About The Position
At Hugging Face, we're building the fastest growing platform for AI builders with over 11 million users. This role sits on the Xet Storage team, responsible for the storage system behind all of Hugging Face, currently storing over 200PB of ML & AI assets. Xet is the underlying storage architecture for the entire Hugging Face platform. In this role, you'll contribute to xet-core, our open-source project in Rust, and hf-xet, the Python library powering the Hugging Face Hub client. You'll also design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend, contributing to the broader Infrastructure organization. We are a small team building and operating at enormous scale in a high-trust, low-process, async, and remote environment, utilizing the latest AI tools to move fast. This role is ideal for someone who loves writing low-level, high-performance code and is energized by the challenge of large-scale, scalable services.
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 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, our open-source project written in Rust.
- Contribute to hf-xet, the Python library underpinning the Hugging Face Hub client and the wider ecosystem of open-source tools.
- Design, build, and operate meaningful and challenging features in the Xet Storage backend.
- Contribute to the broader Infrastructure organization at Hugging Face.
- Build and operate incredible things at enormous scale in a high-trust, low-process, async, and remote environment.
- Lean heavily on the latest AI tools to move fast.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Flexible working hours and 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.
- Support for the ML/AI community.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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