Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)
Perplexityover 1 year ago
Berlin, Germany or London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure for search serving and retrieval.
- Design and improve distributed backend systems handling high request volumes.
- Debug and optimize Linux systems, containers, networking, and production services.
- Improve reliability through observability, capacity planning, performance profiling, and incident response.
- Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems primarily using AWS and Kubernetes.
- Build internal tools and automation for development, testing, debugging, and infrastructure operations.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and production rollout safety.
- Contribute to product codebases using Rust, Go, and other systems languages.
- Own systems end to end from architecture and implementation through deployment and production operation.
Requirements
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and automation.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, performance analysis, and production debugging.
- Experience building or operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput backend systems.
- Experience with containers, orchestration, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and release tooling.
- Fluency in at least one systems language such as Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
- Comfort working across infrastructure and application-level code.
- Strong ownership and ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
- Preferred experience with search, retrieval, ranking, or other large-scale data-serving systems.
- Preferred experience operating Rust services in production, using AWS and Kubernetes, and with modern observability systems.
- Preferred experience with profiling, capacity planning, performance optimization, and AI-assisted developer or operational tooling.
About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.