Exa

1 year ago

Software Engineer, Backend

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Job Summary

Backend engineer at Exa building high-throughput, low-latency systems for a massive-scale search engine. You’ll work on data pipelines processing millions of documents daily, contribute to Rust/C++-based infrastructure, and help design a vector database powering AI applications. This in-person San Francisco role offers exposure to a GPU cluster and ambitious, performance-focused projects.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Help design and build backend systems for a massive-scale search infrastructure.
•Develop data processing pipelines to handle millions of documents per day.
•Optimize system performance for low latency and high throughput.
•Collaborate with hardware, data, and ML teams to improve indexing and search capabilities.
•Contribute to building and refining a vector database that supports AI applications.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 300,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•Experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems.
•Ability to build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day.
•Ability to optimize a system to an exceptional degree.
•Interest in the problem of finding high quality information and its impact.
•Experience in a high performance language such as C++ or Rust.

Experience:Search engineWeb crawlingVector databasesRustGPUMachine learning

Skills:BackendSystems designHigh performanceScalabilityDistributed systems

Tech Stack:RustC++

Company Brief

Exa

Builds an embeddings-based neural search engine and web search API for AI applications, offering crawling, retrieval, and deep research tools to serve developers and AI agents with up-to-date web knowledge.

Industry: API Platforms

Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: USD 500M to 1B

Funding: Series B

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2021

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