Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)
Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin
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Applied AIonsitesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and operate systems ingesting web-scale data for next-gen search.
- Lead projects building large-scale crawlers and ingestion pipelines.
- Ensure reliable ingestion and processing of billions of web pages.
Ideal candidate
Experienced backend builder who thrives owning high-impact distributed systems end to end and cares deeply about clean, efficient code and reliable web-scale data.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of software development experience with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Rust, or Go
- Experience with large-scale web crawlers
- Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS
- Passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily