Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build and operate mission-critical APIs providing building blocks for frontier intelligence
• ▹Ensure low latency and high throughput through aggressive performance optimization
• ▹Continually reimagine architectures for tomorrow's customer needs while serving today's workloads
• ▹Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments
• ▹Collaborate across teams to bring novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform
• ▹Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality and documentation

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go or Rust
• ▹Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution/versioning, idempotency, auth patterns, rate limiting, performance tuning
• ▹Hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), fluency with Kubernetes, CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
• ▹Strong customer empathy and product sense for ergonomic, well-documented APIs

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with modern AI APIs (latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards)

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that combines multiple leading models with real-time web search to deliver fast, trustworthy, citation-backed answers. In 2026 it launched Computer, a general-purpose agentic AI product used by millions to turn knowledge into action.