Senior System Engineer (Virtual Private Cloud Team) (opens in a new tab) Amsterdam · Remote - Europe

Nebius Group; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative culture

Impactful AI projects

International environment

Job summary

Nebius in Amsterdam is seeking a Go backend engineer to help build and operate the core networking layer of our cloud platform. You will contribute to secure private networks, load balancing, and firewall integration while collaborating across a world-class engineering team.

The role involves working on the control-plane in Go and supporting low-level dataplane in C, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a fast-moving AI infrastructure company.

Qualifications

• Capable of writing reliable, high-performance concurrent code.
• Proficient in Go and able to read C/C++, or be ready to learn both.
• Familiar with routing network traffic.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate the core networking layer for Nebius Cloud.
• Design secure, isolated private networks and connect them to the public Internet.
• Work on both the control-plane (Go) and dataplane (C) components to support Nebius networking.
• Improve scalability and resilience of Nebius services.

Skills

Concurrency

Go

C/C++ reading

Job description

About Nebius

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

The role

The VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) team builds and operates the core networking layer of our cloud platform. We enable virtual machines to communicate reliably by abstracting them from the underlying physical network, providing seamless IP-based connectivity even as workloads move across the datacenter.

Our team designs secure, isolated private networks for customers, connects them to the public internet, and delivers essential networking services such as load balancers, firewalls, and security groups. Because nearly every cloud application depends on networking, VPC is a foundational service for the entire platform.

Stability and resilience are our top priorities—we engineer systems to remain reliable and operational even when parts of the cloud experience failures.

Our team both develops the control-plane, written in Golang, and supports open-source based dataplane, written mostly in C. This makes us quite unique in that we both have high-level control plane tasks and low-level system research tasks, with different team members focusing more on one part or the other.

What we do

• Increase service scalability and reliability
• Develop the control & data plane for Nebius Cloud network services
• Develop service functionality (e.g. IPv6 support, service endpoints, VPC peering, L7 load balancers and other networking services)
• Improve the internal architecture, optimizing interaction with related services
• Debug datapath and kernel issues, including performance related issues
• Perform load testing for services

We expect you to have

• Capable of writing reliable, high-performance concurrent code
• Proficient in Go and able to read C/C++, or be ready to learn both
• Familiar with routing network traffic

It would be an added bonus if you

• Worked with OVS, VPP, DPDK, Linux kernel network subsystem or other network dataplanes
• Well-versed in virtual networks and overlays, SDN, NFV, DPI, network protocols, routing and tunneling, BGP, and MPL

We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.

Benefits & Perks

• 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

What's it like to work at Nebius

Fast moving- Bold thinking- Constant growth- Meaningful impact- Trust and real ownership- Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.