Backend Engineer at Exa (S21)
$130K - $200K  •  
Web search rebuilt for LLMs
San Francisco, California
Full-time
Any (new grads ok)
About Exa
About the role

Exa is building web-scale systems for search. We routinely run batch jobs with >1000 machines and develop production services that involve many terabytes of text. Up for the challenge?

Desired Experience

  • You have extensive experience with some high performance language (C++, rust, etc.)
  • You’re comfortable optimizing the crap out of a system
  • Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world

Example Projects

  • Recreate google-level search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
  • Revamp our document parser to work for any website
  • Make a custom vector database run over a billion vectors in under 100ms

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