Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Perplexity
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Python","Go","Rust","Kubernetes","AWS","CI/CD","API design","Latency optimization"]

Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs for Perplexity’s API Platform, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput backend services, security and reliability across diverse compute environments, and collaboration to evolve frontier capabilities for developers and agents.

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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

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Job Summary

Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs for Perplexity’s API Platform, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput backend services, security and reliability across diverse compute environments, and collaboration to evolve frontier capabilities for developers and agents.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

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 reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow, while faithfully serving the workloads of today.
  • •Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.
  • •Collaborate across teams to incorporate frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust (frontier API platforms preferred).
  • •Strong understanding of high-traffic API design, including schema evolution, versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
Experience:5+ yearsAIAPI PlatformDistributed systems
Skills:PythonGoRustKubernetesAWSCI/CDAPI designLatency optimization
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustAWSKubernetesCI/CDAPIsDistributed Systems

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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