Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence
• Ensure low latency and high throughput through aggressive performance optimization
• Reimagine customer needs and architectures to serve future workloads
• Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments
• Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform
• Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, and internal documentation

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust
• Strong understanding of high-traffic API design including schema evolution, versioning, idempotency, and rate limiting
• Hands-on cloud experience with AWS preferred
• Fluency with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices
• Strong customer empathy and product sense for developer ergonomics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern AI APIs including latency tuning, streaming, and model orchestration

About the Company

Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users through elegant APIs and battle-tested AI systems.