Search Golang Engineer, Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff

Salary not provided

AWS

Linux

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Berlin

London

3 days a week in office

Conversational AI-powered search tool

Job no longer available

Conversational AI-powered search tool

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

AWS

Linux

Golang

Mid and Senior level

Berlin

London

3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Company mission

To advance the way people discover and share information.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Significant experience developing scalable Golang services for production environments
Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Proven track record implementing systems that scale to millions of users
Strong background in Linux performance tuning, monitoring, and debugging
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation
Ability to proactively tackle scaling challenges—anticipating bottlenecks before they arise
Passion for building backend solutions that power real-time, reliable search

What the job involves

Join Perplexity AI as a Search Golang Engineer and help architect the next generation of massively scalable, AI-powered search infrastructure
In this role, you’ll leverage Golang to design, implement, and operate backend systems that handle millions of queries with uncompromising reliability and efficiency
Build highly scalable, distributed backend services using Golang
Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure that supports exponential traffic growth
Engineer cloud-native solutions, optimizing for horizontal scale and rapid failover
Implement robust monitoring, autoscaling, and incident recovery strategies
Collaborate with product, infra, and devops teams to maximize throughput and resilience
Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, and operational excellence for backend systems
Mentor peers and champion scalable design principles across the organization

Our take

As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity 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 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And 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 has allowed Perplexity to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Sep 2025

$200m

LATE VC

Jul 2025

$100m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.8bn

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Aravind Srinivas

(Co-Founder, President & CEO)

Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Denis Yarats

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.

Johnny Ho

(Co-Founder & CSO)

Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.

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