senior/staff SWE, agentic search

__tl;dr: senior/staff SWE, agentic search; relocation to Amsterdam/London/NY or remote __

Want to quickly build cool frontier stuff in a startup, but miss having health insurance, office snacks, and liquid stock options? We've brought you the best of both worlds: a startup within Nebius🧪

The startup is Tavily. Back in the day when ChatGPT couldn't browse the internet (around 2023), it emerged as possibly the first open-source implementation of deep search. It then grew into a full-fledged information access layer for agents on the internet — with its own web index and ranking, optimized not for humans, but for AI. In two years, Tavily has gathered millions of users, become the de facto search engine in LangChain, raised $25M, and recently — joined Nebius ❤️

You already know about Nebius. An Amsterdam-based AI cloud that provides GPU infrastructure to companies. It has the engineering legacy of Yandex, $2B in investments from NVIDIA, and clients like Meta, Microsoft, and Cursor.

Now, to become the top-1 agentic search engine, they have almost everything. They just need a few more awesome** senior / staff engineers:** ⚙️ those who build the runtime part — accepting requests, fetching, ranking, and delivering documents under strict latency and throughput requirements; 📁 those responsible for indexing — building the index itself, calculating features for ranking, and handling storage formats; 📍 those who know how to crawl the entire internet and process data in real-time.

Therefore, if you have built: ⭕ highly loaded, low-latency systems (e.g., DBMS, query engines, storage, HFT infrastructure); ⭕ or recommendation systems and ad engines; ⭕ or web crawlers; ⭕ or large offline data pipelines (search engines, social networks, marketplaces; Spark, MapReduce, and all that); ⭕ or datasets for LLM pre-training, or online data pipelines (Apache Beam, Kafka, Flink); ⭕ or done something else that you think is relevant — write to us! If you're unsure, write anyway, and we'll figure it out together.

All roles require a minimum of 5 years of experience (preferably more) with C++, Rust, and/or Golang, and a willingness to get hands-on.

Strict enterprise rules prevent us from disclosing salary ranges — but they are definitely not lower than in big tech, plus equity — from Nebius, of course 📈 You can relocate to Amsterdam, London, NY, or Tel Aviv; if you are exceptional and located in another part of Europe or the US, remote work can sometimes be discussed.