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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

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Applied AIonsitesenior$220k–$405k
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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
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