Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design APIs delivering frontier intelligence to startups, enterprises, governments.
- Scale planet-scale retrieval and long-horizon orchestration for builders.
- Harden security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A customer-obsessed backend builder with 5+ years scaling high-traffic systems who cares deeply about ergonomic developer experiences and turning frontier AI into elegant, reliable APIs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), along with fluency with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
- Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.
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