
Perplexity AI
Company
Sr. Backend Software Engineer
Job Description
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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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining and optimizing key-value and relational databases.
- Building interfaces between backend and consumer web/mobile clients.
- Scaling and load balancing web server backends with rapidly changing needs.
Qualifications
- Strong experience with Python.
- Strong experience with databases and caching.
- Experience with infrastructure/kubernetes.
- Extensible system design skills.
- 4+ years of engineering experience.
Our cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
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