Member of Technical Staff (Rust Engineer, Search)

Perplexity
Belgrade, London, Berlin
Full timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Rust","Linux","AWS","Container orchestration","Performance","Profiling"]

Seeking a talented Search Rust Engineer to join a fast-growing team and relentlessly optimize performance of an AI-powered search stack. You will architect, build, and optimize ultra-low-latency Rust-based infrastructure, profile services to drive down latency, and collaborate with product and infra teams to deliver best-in-class query performance in a high-throughput, data-intensive environment.

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Perplexity
10 months ago

Member of Technical Staff (Rust Engineer, Search)

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Job Summary

Seeking a talented Search Rust Engineer to join a fast-growing team and relentlessly optimize performance of an AI-powered search stack. You will architect, build, and optimize ultra-low-latency Rust-based infrastructure, profile services to drive down latency, and collaborate with product and infra teams to deliver best-in-class query performance in a high-throughput, data-intensive environment.
Location: Belgrade, London, Berlin
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, build, and optimize ultra-low-latency search infrastructure using Rust
  • •Profile and instrument services, continuously driving down response times at scale
  • •Develop and maintain distributed backend components powering real-time search and retrieval
  • •Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to design systems that deliver best-in-class query performance
  • •Apply advanced concurrency, memory management, and network programming patterns for maximum throughput

Key Requirements

  • •Deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems
  • •Experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services
  • •Strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging
  • •Background in cloud infrastructure - preferably AWS - and container orchestration
  • •Track record of driving efficiency for search or data-intensive products
Experience:AISearchBackendDistributed systems
Skills:RustLinuxAWSContainer orchestrationPerformanceProfiling
Tech Stack:RustAWSKubernetesLinuxNetwork programmingConcurrencyProfiling

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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