Senior Software Engineer (Storage Virtualization Team)

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

• 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, 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.

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

What’s it like to work at Nebius:

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

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.