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# Senior Software Engineer (Storage Virtualization Team)

- **Company:** Nebius
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £98,295.0
- **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:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5852580913

## 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, 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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