Member of Technical Staff (Golang Engineer, Search)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build highly scalable, distributed backend services using Golang
• ▹Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure supporting exponential traffic growth
• ▹Engineer cloud-native solutions, optimizing for horizontal scale and rapid failover
• ▹Implement robust monitoring, autoscaling, and incident recovery strategies
• ▹Collaborate with product, infra, and devops teams to maximize throughput and resilience
• ▹Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, and operational excellence
• ▹Mentor peers and champion scalable design principles across the organization

Requirements

• ▹Significant experience developing scalable Golang services for production environments
• ▹Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• ▹Proven track record implementing systems that scale to millions of users
• ▹Strong background in Linux performance tuning, monitoring, and debugging
• ▹Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation
• ▹Ability to proactively tackle scaling challenges, anticipating bottlenecks before they arise

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity AI is architecting the next generation of massively scalable, AI-powered search infrastructure, serving millions of queries reliably and efficiently.