Senior Software Engineer (YDB Team)

About the role

The YDB Development Team is seeking a software engineer to work on a scalable, reliable binary object storage foundation and a distributed relational database. You will adapt YDB to leverage modern hardware, maximize performance on various storage devices, and reengineer components with efficient algorithms to solve complex system challenges.

Responsibilities

• Adapt YDB to leverage modern hardware to its fullest potential including QLC NVMe drives, Dual 800Gb/s network adapters, and BlueField DPUs.
• Maximize performance on widely used devices such as HDDs and TLC NVMe.
• Reengineer YDB components with more efficient algorithms to solve complex system challenges.

Required skills

• C++
• C
• Highly loaded systems
• Core dumps
• Flamegraphs
• Sanitized builds
• High-performance components
• Low-latency components
• CPU caches
• Atomic operations
• NUMA architectures

Nice to have

• LSM trees
• B+ trees
• perf
• VTune
• bpftrace
• gdb
• Erasure coding
• Checksumming
• NVMe
• HDD

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership

About the Company

Nebius is a full-stack AI cloud platform supporting developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment. Listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel.