Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)

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1 year ago
Berlin, Germany or London, United KingdomSenior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead projects involving large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data-processing systems.
  • Build, maintain, and optimize backend and frontend crawler-service components, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards.
  • Collaborate with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages.
  • Architect and implement full-stack features and scalable distributed systems for high-load and real-time data operations.
  • Iterate on novel approaches and improve system performance, usability, and reliability.

Requirements

  • At least five years of software development experience.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms in Python, C++, Rust, or Go.
  • Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable.
  • Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure with hands-on Kubernetes and AWS experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to write clean, efficient, and scalable systems.
Perplexity

About Perplexity

201-500 employees

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.