engineering
Posted Dec 10, 2025Software Engineer, Web Crawling
at Exa
Singapore, SingaporeOn-site
Responsibilities
- Basically build Google-scale crawling! WHO YOU ARE - You have extensive
Requirements
- Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen.
- If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.
- experience building and scaling web crawlers, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly - You have
- experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.) - You are familiar with TypeScript, Playwright, modern web design, CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) - You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree - You care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world WHAT YOU COULD DO - Build a distributed crawler that can handle 100M+ pages per day - Optimize crawl politeness and rate limiting across thousands of domains - Design
Benefits
- We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
- While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world.
- If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa. -
- Benefits: We offer premium healthcare
- benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Additional details
- We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it.
- Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google.
- - Visas: We’re happy to sponsor international candidates!