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Hugging Face is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Xet Storage team, responsible for the storage infrastructure powering the world's largest AI model hub. The platform hosts over 11 million users, 4 million models, 1 million datasets, and 1.5 million Gradio apps, with storage exceeding 200PB and growing rapidly.
In this role, you will contribute to xet-core, an open-source Rust project that powers the hf-xet Python library underlying the Hugging Face Hub client and broader ecosystem. You'll design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend while working within the Infrastructure organization. The team operates at enormous scale in a high-trust, low-process, async, fully remote environment, leveraging AI tools to move quickly.
You'll work on low-level, high-performance code addressing challenges in distributed systems, storage, and networking. The role requires proven experience building and operating production systems software, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and simplicity.
Required qualifications include 8+ years building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure; proficiency in low-level systems languages (Rust strongly preferred, though Python, TypeScript, Go, and C++ are also used); ability to work independently in high-trust, low-process environments with comfort in ambiguity; and experience in fast-moving, async, fully remote settings.
Bonus experience includes designing efficient, high-performance, fault-tolerant data storage and retrieval systems; operating production systems with monitoring, alerting, and distributed debugging; and familiarity with git internals, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes), databases, or networking.
Hugging Face values diversity, equity, and inclusivity. The company offers flexible working hours, health/dental/vision benefits, parental leave, flexible PTO, equity for all employees, and conference/training reimbursement. Offices are located in NYC and Paris, with full remote support.
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