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Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)

Perplexity AI · Belgrade · London · Berlin

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own and improve backend systems behind a latency-sensitive search stack.
  • Build scalable infrastructure for search serving and retrieval systems.
  • Own systems end to end from architecture to production operation.

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded owner who thrives in fast-moving environments and cares about low-latency, reliable production systems. Comfortable spanning infrastructure and application code to improve performance and operability.

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 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
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