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Senior Software Engineer (YDB Team)

Nebius · Remote - Europe

Posted about 3 months ago

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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.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
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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