Software Engineer, Web Crawling
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150 - 300
Posted on:
15 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.
As a Web Crawler engineer youd be responsible for crawling the entire web. Basically build Google-scale crawling!
Who You Are
You have extensive experience building and scaling web crawlers or would be excited to ramp up very quickly
You have experience with some high performance language (C Rust etc.)
You are familiar with TypeScript Playwright modern web design CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)
Youre comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
You care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
What You Could Do
Build a distributed crawler that can handle 100M pages per day
Optimize crawl politeness and rate limiting across thousands of domains
Design systems to detect and handle dynamic content JavaScript rendering and anti-bot measures
Create intelligent crawl scheduling and prioritization algorithms for maximum coverage efficiency
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.
