The posting, in Nebius Group's own words
archived Sep 3, 2026About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure. Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
The role
#LI-MM1 The YDB Development Team at Nebius is looking for Mid and Senior Software Developer with a strong expertise in C++. YDB is an open-source product that serves two main purposes within Nebius: A scalable and reliable binary object storage foundation powering S3 Object Storage, Filestore, Network Block Storage Tailored to process AI- related Workloads A distributed relational database and message broker supporting Nebius cloud operations such as IAM, Billing, Audit Trails and Logging How You Will Change the World with Us Adapt YDB to leverage modern hardware to its fullest potential: QLC NVMe drives, Dual 800Gb/s network adapters, 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
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Requirements
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 Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, ideally InfiniBand, RoCE/RDMA) Experience with Kubernetes and Grafana Track record of active participation in incident resolution Experience designing production-grade distributed storage components Knowledge of availability and durability calculations We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.