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Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)

Perplexity · Search

Location
Belgrade, Serbia · London, United Kingdom · Berlin, Germany
Metro
London, Berlin
Workplace
Unspecified
Level
Mid-level
Type
Full-time
Posted
19 months ago
Source
Ashby

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PythonRustC++CAWSKubernetesLinux

What the posting covers

About the company

Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Senior or Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies. You will help drive key decisions around the architecture, design,…

Responsibilities

Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a…

Qualifications

3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar) Ownership of full project lifecycle — you don't just write a fast inner loop, you care about how the system is built, deployed, operated, and scaled in production Knowledge of…

Preferred Qualifications

Experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems Understanding of search fundamentals: indexing, query parsing, ranking, and relevance Experience with trading systems or other latency-sensitive real-time…

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