Software Engineer, Web Crawling

Exa · Zurich

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Company
Exa
Location
Zurich
Posted
November 4, 2026

About this job

As a Web Crawler engineer, you'd be responsible for crawling the entire web. Basically build Google-scale crawling! Who You Are You have extensive 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 systems to detect and handle dynamic content, JavaScript…

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