# Software Engineer, Backend

**Company:** [Exa](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/exa)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Rust, C++, Vector Databases, Data Processing Pipelines, High Throughput Systems, Low Latency Systems, Crawling Systems, Kubernetes, GCP
**Posted:** 2025-06-26

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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