Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

What this role involves

Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its API Platform team. The role focuses on designing, building, and scaling high-throughput APIs for frontier AI capabilities, with responsibilities spanning distributed systems, performance optimization, and agent orchestration. Candidates should have 5+ years of backend experience with Python, Go, or Rust, and strong expertise in API design and cloud infrastructure.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• go
• rust
• kubernetes
• aws
• ci/cd
• devops
• api design
• schema evolution
• versioning
• idempotency
• authentication
• rate limiting
• performance tuning
• distributed systems
• streaming
• model orchestration
• agent orchestration
• low latency
• high throughput

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

PERPLEXITY API PLATFORM Perplexity innovates at the frontier of AI infrastructure, search, and orchestration to serve the world's most discerning users. The Perplexity API Platform brings our technology to the world's most discerning developers. From exabyte-scale knowledge indexes to codegen-fir…