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
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.