Exa
Software Engineer, Backend
$180K–$350K
San Francisco, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2025
- Visa sponsorship
- The company is happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3), but cannot guarantee a visa.
About the job
Build and optimize backend systems for Exa’s web-scale search architecture, including crawling, data processing, and vector retrieval.
What you'll do
- Develop high-throughput, low-latency systems and data pipelines processing millions of documents per day.
- Optimize backend systems for exceptional performance.
- Contribute to search architecture projects such as web crawling, keyword search, and vector databases.
What they ask for
- Experience writing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Ability to build data processing pipelines that handle millions of documents per day.
- Comfort optimizing systems to an exceptional degree.
- Care about finding high-quality information.
Nice to have
- Experience in a high-performance language such as C++ or Rust.
Pay
$180K – $350K USD base salary
Tools
C++, Rust
AI focus
Build search infrastructure and systems supporting state-of-the-art embedding models and large-scale information retrieval.
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