Member of Technical Staff Backend Infrastructure Engineer Search
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure for search serving and retrieval. You will design distributed backend systems, debug production Linux, container, and networking environments, and improve observability, capacity planning, and incident response. You will deploy cloud-native systems, automate operations, improve CI/CD, and own systems through production operation.
Requirements
- Cloud infrastructure
- Distributed system
- Automation
- Linux internals
- Performance analysis
- Production debugging
- Latency-sensitive backend system
- Container
- Orchestration
- Observability
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD
- Rust
- Go
- C++
- Java
Responsibilities
- Build and operate low-latency infrastructure for search serving and retrieval
- Design and improve distributed backend systems
- Debug and optimize Linux systems, containers, networking, and production services
- Improve reliability through observability, capacity planning, profiling, and incident response
- Design, deploy, and operate AWS and Kubernetes systems
- Build internal tooling and automation
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and rollout safety
- Contribute to Rust and Go product codebases
- Own systems from architecture through production operation