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Web Crawler Engineer

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 building and scaling web crawlers, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly

  • You have 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

  • Build a distributed crawler that can handle 100M+ pages per day

  • Optimize crawl politeness and rate limiting across thousands of domains

  • Design systems to detect and handle dynamic content, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot measures

  • Create intelligent crawl scheduling and prioritization algorithms for maximum coverage efficiency

$150,000 - $300,000 a year (For SF Office) + Above Market Equity

We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)

This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're big believers in in-person culture!

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