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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
The Senior Software Engineer will join the YDB Development Team at Nebius, focusing on enhancing the YDB product, which serves as a scalable binary object storage and a distributed relational database. Day-to-day responsibilities include adapting YDB for modern hardware, maximizing performance on various storage devices, and reengineering components with efficient algorithms to address complex system challenges.
- 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 experience in C/C++ programming for highly loaded systems
- Understanding of core dumps, flamegraphs, and sanitized builds
- Experience developing high-performance, low-latency components
- Understanding of CPU caches, Modern CPU atomic operations and NUMA architectures
Nice to have
- Experience with on-disk data structures (LSM trees, B+ trees)
- Hands-on experience with debugging and profiling tools such as perf, VTune, bpftrace, gdb
- Knowledge of storage-related algorithms (erasure coding, checksumming)
- Understanding of storage device internals (NVMe, HDD)
- Familiarity with Linux kernel, SPDK/DPDK, libaio, io_uring
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
- Focus on high-performance, low-latency systems may require intense problem-solving
- 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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