Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)
Perplexity · Search
- Location
- Belgrade, Serbia · London, United Kingdom · Berlin, Germany
- Metro
- London, Berlin
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20 months ago
- Source
- Ashby
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JavaGoRustC++AWSKubernetesLinux
What the posting covers
About the company
Perplexity is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own and improve the backend systems behind our latency-sensitive search stack. You’ll work across high-QPS Rust and Go services, distributed retrieval systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and…
Responsibilities
Build and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure for search serving and retrieval. Design and improve distributed backend systems that handle high request volumes. Debug and optimize Linux systems, containers, networking, and production services.…
Requirements
Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and automation. Deep understanding of Linux internals, performance analysis, and production debugging. Experience building or operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput backend systems.…
Nice To Have
Experience with search, retrieval, ranking, or other large-scale data-serving systems. Experience operating Rust services in production. Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern observability systems. Experience with profiling, capacity planning, and…
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