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Staff/senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Lead infrastructure design and scaling for Perplexity’s AI platform
New York
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Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI

A technology firm specializing in artificial intelligence and natural language processing to enhance user interactions and information retrieval.

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Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world's leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world's most visionary and successful leaders. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that's growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.

Perplexity is looking for experienced Infrastructure Engineers 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 tools, systems, and platforms that empower web, mobile, and browser engineers to build state-of-the-art products.

Tech Stack: Python | Go | TypeScript | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | Redis | FastAPI | React | Bazel | GitHub | AWS

Platform

The Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity's product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence. This small, high-impact group builds and maintains critical infrastructure—from backend systems such as authentication, real-time data flows, and service orchestration to frontend frameworks that ensure fast, reliable, and secure user experiences. By setting rigorous standards for code quality, uptime, and developer productivity, the Platform team ensures everyone at Perplexity can innovate at speed on top of a robust, well-architected foundation.

DevX

DevX (Developer Experience) empowers engineers across Perplexity to build, ship, and iterate faster than ever. The team owns internal platforms for source control, build, test, and deployment—removing friction from every step of product development. They architect seamless onboarding, blazing-fast CI/CD, and developer tools that unlock creativity and safety at scale. Through deep collaboration and high autonomy, the DevX team amplifies the impact of every engineer, making rapid, reliable innovation possible across the company.

Cloud Infra

The Cloud Infra team architects and operates the mission-critical cloud infrastructure behind Perplexity's global platform. This team designs and scales compute, storage, and networking systems for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, blending a mix of proactive project work and operational support. The team collaborates closely with product, AI research, security, and the rest of Perplexity's teams to ensure our services are always available, reliable, and as fast as curiosity demands—building infrastructure that grows in lockstep with user and model scale.

API

The API team defines how developers and products across the world integrate with Perplexity's capabilities. They design, build, and secure high-performance APIs that power everything from user-facing apps to third-party integrations and enterprise solutions. With a relentless focus on reliability, scalability, and clear documentation, the API team makes Perplexity's intelligence and features universally accessible—driving adoption and developer delight across industries and use cases.

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Staff/senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
New York
Engineering
About Perplexity AI
A technology firm specializing in artificial intelligence and natural language processing to enhance user interactions and information retrieval.