Backend Product Engineer

Perplexity AI • San Francisco, CA

293d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Perplexity is looking for a backend engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading design, implementation, and scaling of systems that power web and mobile products. Perplexity is rapidly scaling both in number of use cases and number of users. Our backend stack is Python, Postgresql, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes, built alongside inhouse AI and search interfaces.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Python
• Strong experience with databases and caching
• Experience working with high scale data and nondeterministic systems like LLMs
• Experience with infrastructure at scale, ideally Kubernetes
• 4+ years of engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Building systems that ingest and process data from the web and other sources
• Maintaining and optimizing interfaces that interact with databases and caching systems
• Work closely with all clients and frontend engineers to understand product requirements
• Work closely with machine learning and data science teams to iterate on nondeterministic systems
• Manage a complex orchestration system with many moving parts and interfaces
• Scaling and load balancing multiple services with rapidly changing needs

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Includes a 401(k) plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees