Senior Software Engineer (Storage Virtualization Team)
About this role
Why work at Nebius
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. We create the tools and resources our customers need to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. Our employees work at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure alongside some of the most experienced and innovative leaders and engineers in the field.
Where we work
Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, Nebius has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel. The team of over 1400 employees includes more than 400 highly skilled engineers with deep expertise across hardware and software engineering, as well as an in-house AI R&D team.
Responsibilities
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Storage Virtualization Team, building a distributed, fault-tolerant storage system for Nebius’ hyperscaler cloud.
- You’ll work on high-performance block and filesystem storage that delivers sub-millisecond latency, millions of IOPS and terabytes per second of throughput, even in the face of hardware failures.
- What You’ll Work On:
- Virtualization: virtio-blk and virtio-fs, QEMU and vhost-user, performance-critical I/O paths
- Networking: high-throughput VM-to-storage transport over TCP and RoCEv2 (RDMA)
- Storage systems: replication, consensus, self-healing, and data migration
- What We Expect:
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong knowledge of C++
- Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Basic knowledge of operating system internals (I/O, memory, scheduling)
- Ability to write reliable, maintainable code and debug complex systems
- Team-oriented mindset and fluency in English
- We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.