Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)
Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own and scale low-latency infrastructure powering search serving and retrieval.
- Take distributed systems from design through production operation end to end.
- Improve reliability with observability, profiling, and incident response.
Ideal candidate
Infrastructure-minded engineer who thrives owning latency-sensitive systems end to end and cares deeply about reliability, performance, and operational excellence in fast-moving environments.
Requirements
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and automation.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, performance analysis, and production debugging.
- Experience building or operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput backend systems.
- Experience with containers, orchestration, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and release tooling.
- Fluency in at least one systems language, such as Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
- Comfort working across infrastructure and application-level code.
- Strong ownership and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
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