Perplexity AI
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- Perplexity is seeking strong engineers with a passion for delivering frontier intelligence and infrastructure to developers.
- Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology.
- The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.
- Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, and internal documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
- Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.
Nice to have
- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), along with fluency with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
Skills
- Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users.
- The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers.
- The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike.
- startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between.
- Join us to build tools for curious minds.
Company info
- You'll also define technical strategy for how we scale to meet compounding growth exponentials (number of customers, agents per customer, compute/retrieval per agent, etc.).
- Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them.
- Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
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