Senior System Engineer (Virtual Private Cloud Team)

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Remote - Europe

Level: Senior
Work type: Remote · Europe

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 3 October 2026.

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About the role

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About Nebius:

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.

The role

The VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) team builds and operates the core networking layer of our cloud platform. We enable virtual machines to communicate reliably by abstracting them from the underlying physical network, providing seamless IP-based connectivity even as workloads move across the datacenter.

Our team designs secure, isolated private networks for customers, connects them to the public internet, and delivers essential networking services such as load balancers, firewalls, and security groups. Because nearly every cloud application depends on networking, VPC is a foundational service for the entire platform.

Stability and resilience are our top priorities—we engineer systems to remain reliable and operational even when parts of the cloud experience failures.

Our team both develops the control-plane, written in Golang, and supports open-source based dataplane, written mostly in C. This makes us quite unique in that we both have high-level control plane tasks and low-level system research tasks, with different team members focusing more on one part or the other.

What we do:

Increase service scalability and reliability
Develop the control & data plane for Nebius Cloud network services
Develop service functionality (e.g. IPv6 support, service endpoints, VPC peering, L7 load balancers and other networking services)
Improve the internal architecture, optimizing interaction with related services
Debug datapath and kernel issues, including performance related issues
Perform load testing for services

We expect you to have:

Capable of writing reliable, high-performance concurrent code
Proficient in Go and able to read C/C++, or be ready to learn both
Familiar with routing network traffic

It would be an added bonus if you:

Worked with OVS, VPP, DPDK, Linux kernel network subsystem or other network dataplanes
Well-versed in virtual networks and overlays, SDN, NFV, DPI, network protocols, routing and tunneling, BGP, and MPL

We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.

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Benefits & Perks:

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

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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

Equal Opportunity Statement:

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Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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