Software Engineer, Backend is open at Exa in San Francisco, California. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $350K. Posted on Jun 26, 2025, and still on Exa’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. 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. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z. Our ultimate goal…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Exa’s careers page.
Hiring at Exa
Exa has 67 open roles right now, 3 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Marketing & Community. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $230K. See all its roles
