Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)Active$220K–$405K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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 reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures: to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.

  • Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.

  • Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the: API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.

  • Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, and internal documentation.

What they're looking for

  • + 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 preferred), along with fluency with: Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model: orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
  • Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are: ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.