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# Senior Software Engineer (Storage Virtualization Team)

- **Company:** Nebius Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, C++ (Programming Language), Data Migration, Software Debugging, Fault Tolerance, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Remote Direct Memory Access, Software Engineering, Storage Virtualization, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Virtualization Technology, Backend
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8u78eef6e

## About the Role

* 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., Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

## Description

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


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