Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)
Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin
Applied AIonsitesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and operate web-scale systems powering next-generation search technologies.
- Lead development of large-scale crawlers ingesting billions of web pages.
- Build storage, retrieval and dashboards for crawler data management.
Ideal candidate
An experienced backend builder who loves owning high-impact distributed systems end-to-end and iterating fast to improve performance and reliability at web scale.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of software development experience with strong data structures and algorithms
- 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 Kubernetes and AWS experience
- 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
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