Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsAWSKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentAI Orchestration

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

  • startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between.
  • Join us to build tools for curious minds.

Company info

  • Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them.
  • 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.).
  • Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
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