Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform, C++)
Nebius · London, United Kingdom
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Nebius's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 9% of Nebius's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Nebius
- high 369 stale, 17 reposted of 384 open
- Hiring momentum
- 508 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Nebius's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Nebius.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Nebius, you will focus on building and operating the Nebius Data Platform, a distributed storage and processing system. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing new functionalities in the YTsaurus core using C++, improving the platform experience for users, and ensuring production quality through incident response and debugging. You will work on various projects that enhance the platform's capabilities and performance.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Nebius as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong C++ skills
- Working knowledge of Python and/or Go
- Experience developing and/or operating high-load, distributed services
- Production mindset
- Solid CS fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, concurrency basics
Nice to have
- Experience with Big Data systems (YTsaurus/Hadoop/Spark/ClickHouse/Kafka-like ecosystems)
- Experience with multi-tenant platforms, schedulers, resource isolation, quotas, and reliability engineering
- Strong performance engineering skills (profiling, lock contention, latency/throughput tradeoffs)
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Expectations for production quality and incident response may require on-call duties
- Coding interviews are part of the hiring process
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Listed by Nebius on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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