Staff Backend Software Engineer - API Platform

perplexity

4 months ago

Remote

Full Time

Senior

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About this role

Perplexity is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and operate high-performance APIs, shaping the technical foundation of their external platform. The role involves architecting distributed systems, optimizing performance, and setting engineering standards to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

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Qualifications

5+ years of backend engineering experience

About perplexity

perplexity.ai

Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and knowledge assistant designed to make information retrieval faster and more intuitive. It answers natural language questions with concise explanations and directly cites sources, enabling transparent verification. The platform blends large language models with live web data to surface relevant context, explanations, and links for researchers, students, and professionals. Its chat-style interface and source-backed answers are built to streamline learning and decision-making by turning search into a guided, interactive experience.