Developer Experience Engineer

4 Months ago • 4 Years + • $160,000 PA - $220,000 PA

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

Perplexity is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx) to join their team to revolutionize how people search and interact with the internet. The role involves building and optimizing the work environment for fellow developers. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining developer environments; optimizing CI/CD; optimizing developer workflows; building and maintaining testing environments; owning the developer onboarding flow; and analyzing and resolving complex developer environment issues. The candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the company's rapid expansion and growth.

Must Have:

Experience with macOS and Linux development environments
Proficiency with Bash, Python, and Typescript
Experience with containers and optimizing builds
Familiarity with build tools like webpack and babel
Familiarity with package installation tools like pnpm
Experience with testing tools such as pytest
Experience with linting tools such as ESLint
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

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Perplexity is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx) to join our small team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for building and optimizing the work environment for fellow developers.

The ideal candidate should have experience with build systems, containerization solutions, continuous integration, testing, code editors, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain local and remote developer environments
Maintain and optimize the CI/CD environment
Optimize developer workflows to enable them to ship safely and quickly
Build and maintain testing environments
Own the developer onboarding flow
Analyze, debug, and resolve complex developer environment issue

Qualifications

Strong experience with macOS and Linux development environments
Proficiency with Bash, Python, and Typescript
Experience working with containers and optimizing builds
Familiarity with build tools such as webpack, babel, and bazel
Familiarity with package installation tools such as pnpm and poetry
Experience with testing tools such as pytest, Playwright, and jest
Experience with linting tools such as ESLint, prettier, ruff, mypy
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
4+ years of industry experience

Our cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $220,000.

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.