Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity · API Platform
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States · New York City, New York, United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $220K–$405K/yr (published by employer)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Ashby
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What the posting covers
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…
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…
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence. Ensure low latency and high throughput through aggressive performance optimization (including on upstream systems). Continually…
Qualifications
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…
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