Nebius

Staff Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Crawler

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11 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate web-scale crawling systems for internet content acquisition.
  • Build ingestion workflows for crawlers, structured feeds, external data sources, and partner integrations.
  • Develop URL discovery, deduplication, crawl scheduling, prioritization, recrawl, and freshness systems.
  • Build reliable high-throughput crawl orchestration and content extraction infrastructure processing billions of URLs.
  • Define observability and quality metrics for crawl coverage, freshness, throughput, and content quality.
  • Monitor resource usage, bandwidth consumption, and infrastructure costs.
  • Collaborate with indexing and ML teams to satisfy retrieval and ranking requirements.
  • Enable safe experimentation with crawling strategies and content acquisition policies.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems.
  • Strong expertise in Go or C++.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems handling 10k+ RPS, billions of URLs, or high-throughput pipelines.
  • Understanding of HTTP, DNS, TLS, web crawling, scraping, and content extraction.
  • Experience operating production systems and debugging failures in distributed environments.
  • Strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, and resource management.
  • Experience with web crawling, streaming data pipelines, event-driven systems, distributed schedulers, queues, asynchronous processing, or large-scale content platforms is valued.
  • Experience with Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, RabbitMQ, Spark, Flink, Beam, or MapReduce is a strong-candidate qualification.
  • Willingness to participate in coding interviews.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Career growth and learning opportunities.
  • Flexibility and ownership.
  • Collaborative and innovative culture.
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.
  • International environment and talented teams.

Tech Stack

Apache BeamApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkC++GoRabbitMQ

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Nebius

About Nebius

1,001-5,000 employees

Nebius builds a full-stack AI cloud offering GPU compute, storage, and tools for training and deploying ML models for startups, enterprises, and research labs. It sells consumption-based cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) and managed services tailored to generative AI workloads, including large-scale model training and inference. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam and operates as an independent provider.

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