Software Engineer, Backend
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150 - 300
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI agent. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it and design super high performant vector databases in rust to search over it. If you like compute we also own a $5M H200 GPU cluster (and soon 5xing that) and regularly spin up batchjobs with tens of thousands of machines.
We recently raised an $85M Series B from Benchmark and we are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history. Were high agency low-ego and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right.
As a backend engineer youd play a critical role in our backend system. Were pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests.
Desired Experience
You have experience writing and maintaining high throughput low latency systems
You can build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day
Youre comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Plus: Experience in some high performance language (C Rust etc.)
Example Projects
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
This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. Were happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g. STEM OPT OPT H1B O1 E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical dental vision) we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Real-time AI search engine with a powerful web search API, web crawling API, SERP API, and deep research tools. Search and extract structured content from websites and live data.
