Perplexity•23 days ago
Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer (API Platform)
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
1
Perplexity is seeking a strong backend software engineer with at least 5 years of experience to join their API Platform team.
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The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in high-traffic API design, cloud infrastructure, and backend languages like Python, Go, or Rust.
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Experience with modern AI APIs and model orchestration is a strong plus for this high-impact role.
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Those without a solid background in distributed systems or high-traffic API engineering should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
- 2Ensure low latency and high throughput through aggressive performance optimization (including on upstream systems).
- 3Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow and the architectures to serve those needs while serving current workloads.
- 4Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.
- 5Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities.
Skills Matrix
Must-Have Skills
Backend Engineering
Python
Go
Rust
API Design
Cloud Infrastructure(AWS)
Kubernetes(k8s)
CI/CD
Nice-to-Have Skills
AI APIs
Model Orchestration
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