Backend Product Engineer

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 web and mobile products.

Perplexity is rapidly scaling both in number of use cases and number of users. Our backend stack is Python, Postgresql, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes, built alongside inhouse AI and search interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Building systems that ingest and process data from the web and other sources
• Maintaining and optimizing interfaces that interact with databases and caching systems
• Work closely with all clients and frontend engineers to understand product requirements
• Work closely with machine learning and data science teams to iterate on nondeterministic systems
• Manage a complex orchestration system with many moving parts and interfaces
• Scaling and load balancing multiple services with rapidly changing needs

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Python
• Strong experience with databases and caching
• Experience working with high scale data and nondeterministic systems like LLMs
• Experience with infrastructure at scale, ideally Kubernetes
• 4+ years of engineering experience

Our cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
 
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.