Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Seattle · New York City · Toronto
Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build mission-critical APIs bringing frontier intelligence to developers worldwide.
- Own the API gateway handling auth, rate limiting, metering and routing.
- Turn planet-scale retrieval and orchestration into elegant developer APIs.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A platform-minded backend engineer with 5+ years building infrastructure for other teams who cares deeply about developer experience and owning mission-critical systems end to end.
Requirements
- 5+ years backend engineering with Python, Go, or Rust building platforms for other teams
- Strong high-traffic API design skills including versioning, idempotency, auth and rate limiting
- Hands-on experience building and operating API gateways and routing layers
- Experience with API governance: contract-first design, breaking-change detection and versioning
- Owned CI/CD, containers, IaC and progressive delivery on a major cloud
- Track record owning platforms end to end from design to operation
- Strong customer empathy and product sense for ergonomic developer APIs
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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