Perplexity

Technology

MemberofTechnicalStaff(SoftwareEngineer,APIPlatform)

$220–405k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) at Perplexity. Skills: API Platform, Distributed systems, AI infrastructure. Design mission-critical APIs. Build mission-critical APIs”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years backend engineering, Python, Go, or Rust experience, High-traffic API design understanding, Hands-on cloud experience, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps fluency

Nice to Have

AWS preferred, Modern AI APIs experience a plus

What You'll Do.

Design mission-critical APIs

Build mission-critical APIs

Operate mission-critical APIs

Ensure high throughput

Reimagine customer needs

Serve customer workloads

Harden system security

Harden system reliability

Collaborate across teams

Incorporate novel capabilities

Improve existing capabilities

Uphold engineering excellence

Conduct design reviews

Create internal documentation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Full Job Description

PERPLEXITY API PLATFORM Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-first agent runtimes, the building blocks behind Perplexity's applications are some of the most battle-tested AI systems in the industry. We believe these same building blocks can and should power the aspirations of builders everywhere. It's one thing to solve planet-scale retrieval, long-horizon orchestration, and other foundational AI challenges within a single product ecosystem. The true measure of success is to turn those solutions into elegant APIs that delight developers and agents alike. Our API Platform delivers frontier intelligence to thousands of customers: startups, trillion-dollar enterprises, U.S. and allied governments, and everyone in between. We've achieved incredible scale, yet we're just getting started. Join us to build tools for curious minds. ABOUT THIS ROLE Perplexity is seeking strong engineers with a passion for delivering frontier intelligence and infrastructure to developers. Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them. Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology. The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces. As a member of our team, you'll work on an eclectic portfolio spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, agent orchestration, and frontier topics that often change with each passing month. Throughout this work, you'll prioritize great developer and agent experience alike. You'll also define technical strategy for how we scale to meet compounding growth exponentials (number of customers, agents per customer, compute/retrieval per agent, etc.). KEY RESPONSIBILITIE

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