Member of Technical Staff (Web Access Engineer, Crawler)
Perplexity AI · London · Belgrade · Ireland
Applied AIremotesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Build reliable fetching and rendering systems powering AI search.
- Diagnose fetch failures and turn findings into production fixes.
- Improve content capture for dynamic pages at massive scale.
Ideal candidate
Independent problem-solver who loves tracing elusive web failures end to end and cares about reliable, respectful content access powering AI search at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in web infrastructure, browsers, CDNs, or crawling
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C++
- Deep understanding of HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 including caching, redirects, and content encoding
- Strong knowledge of TLS, DNS, cookies, and sessions
- Understanding of CDN caching, content delivery, retry backoff, and rate limits
- Knowledge of page lifecycle, client-side rendering, service workers, and shadow DOM
- Experience debugging JavaScript with Chrome DevTools, CDP, HAR files, curl, and packet captures
- Comfort working independently when the path forward is not fully defined
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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