over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend systems for a massive-scale search engine
- Develop data processing pipelines for millions of documents per day
- Create and optimize large-scale web crawling infrastructure
- Build high-performance vector database systems
- Work flexibly on projects aligned with individual skills and interests
Requirements
- Experience writing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Ability to build data processing pipelines handling millions of documents per day
- Comfort optimizing systems to an exceptional degree
- Interest in finding high-quality information and its broader importance
- Experience with a high-performance language such as C++ or Rust is a plus
Benefits
- In-person work opportunity in San Francisco
- International candidate sponsorship is available, including STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, and E3
- Premium medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits
- Fertility benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend
About Exa
Exa builds a web-scale search engine and API for AI agents and developer applications, combining its own crawler, embedding models, and high-performance vector search. It sells usage-based APIs and enterprise integrations that power retrieval-augmented generation, browsing, and automation on live web content. The company runs large crawling infrastructure and dedicated GPU clusters to continuously index and embed pages, and ships low-latency search components written in Rust.