Description:

Join the Infrastructure team to build and operate foundational systems for Perplexity’s products.
Work on real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads, focusing on latency, reliability, and rapid iteration.

Requirements:

4+ years of professional software engineering experience in production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
Proven track record of owning complex production systems and delivering technical impact.
Strong software engineering skills in Python or other languages (Go, Rust, C++, Java).
Experience in at least two infrastructure domains (cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, etc.).
Ability to quickly develop depth in unfamiliar systems and manage production incidents.

Opportunity to work on cross-cutting infrastructure problems and lead high-impact programs.
Collaborate with teams across infrastructure, product, AI, and security to set technical direction.

Skills