Backend Software Engineer, Perplexity AI

API

$180-250k

+ Equity

Kubernetes
Python
Redis
Postgres
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Perplexity AI

Conversational AI-powered search tool

Open for applications

Perplexity AI

Conversational AI-powered search tool

21-100 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Open for applications

$180-250k

+ Equity

Kubernetes
Python
Redis
Postgres
DynamoDB
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Company mission

To advance the way people discover and share information.

Role

Who you are

  • Understand good practices of building and working with natural language/LLM APIs
  • Have experience managing infrastructure for API products
  • Have a good intuition for what will last and scale
  • Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
  • 4+ years of engineering experience

What the job involves

  • Perplexity is looking for a backend engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading design, implementation, and scaling of systems that power our API products.
  • Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
  • Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
  • Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
  • Align our technical decisions with the company’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new API initiatives
  • Should be able to generalize specific customer requests and build features that are applicable to the broader user base of the product
  • Our backend stack is Python, Postgresql, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes, built alongside dedicated inhouse AI and search interfaces. The ideal candidate should have experience building systems, infrastructure, scaling, testing, and maintenance

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Company

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • 401(k)
  • Generous home-office stipend

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Dec 2024

$500m

LATE VC

May 2024

$250m

LATE VC

Total funding: $915m

Our take

As artificial intelligence continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.

Reaching impressive heights of 10 million monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. What sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.

The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.

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