Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will play a critical role in the search architecture. You will work on projects based on your skills and interests.

What you will do

• Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
• Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
• Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms

Required qualifications

• Experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems
• Ability to build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day
• Comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
• Care about the problem of finding high quality information

Nice to have

• Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)

Benefits

• Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Fertility benefits
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Monthly wellness stipend

Before you apply

• We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)

About the company

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine. They build massive-scale infra to crawl the web, train embedding models, and design vector databases.