Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Web Crawling (Go/C++)

AI Chopping Block; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Impactful AI projects

International environment

Zusammenfassung

Nebius is building a groundbreaking open-web crawling platform designed for AI workloads. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to own content acquisition and crawling infrastructure at internet scale, balancing coverage, freshness, and cost.

You will shape distributed systems that process billions of URLs and feed downstream indexing and retrieval components. You will collaborate with ML and indexing teams to ensure high-quality data is available for AI-powered search.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems.
• Strong Go or C++ expertise.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems (10k+ RPS, billions of URLs, high-throughput pipelines).
• Understanding of web protocols (HTTP, DNS, TLS), crawling, scraping, and content extraction.
• Experience operating production systems and debugging failures in distributed environments.
• Strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, and resource management.

Aufgaben

• Design, implement, and operate web-scale crawling systems for acquiring content from the internet.
• Build ingestion workflows for internal and external data sources, including crawlers, structured feeds, and partner integrations.
• Develop crawl scheduling, prioritisation, recrawl policies, and freshness strategies.
• Build systems for URL discovery, deduplication, content extraction, and crawl orchestration.
• Ensure reliable operation of crawling infrastructure under high-throughput conditions.
• Define observability and quality metrics for crawl coverage, freshness, throughput, and content quality.
• Monitor resource usage, bandwidth consumption, and infrastructure cost.
• Collaborate with indexing and ML teams to ensure acquired content meets retrieval and ranking requirements.
• Enable safe experimentation with crawling strategies and content acquisition policies.

Kenntnisse

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Web protocols

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

NATS

RabbitMQ

Spark

Flink

Jobbeschreibung

Nebius is building a groundbreaking open-web crawling platform designed for AI workloads. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to own content acquisition and crawling infrastructure at internet scale, balancing coverage, freshness, and cost.

You will shape distributed systems that process billions of URLs and feed downstream indexing and retrieval components. You will collaborate with ML and indexing teams to ensure high-quality data is available for AI-powered search.