Software Engineer, Backend
Builds and optimizes backend systems for massive-scale web crawling, data processing pipelines handling millions of documents daily, and high-performance vector databases in Rust for AI search applications. Requires expertise in high throughput, low latency systems.
About the job
Desired Experience
- Experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems
- 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
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
Skills
Rust, C++, Vector Databases, Data Processing Pipelines, High Throughput Systems, Low Latency Systems, Crawling Systems, Kubernetes, GCP
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