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Backend Software Engineer

2 months ago


San Francisco, California, United States Perplexity AI Full time
Job Description

Perplexity AI is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our team of innovators revolutionizing the way people interact with the internet. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling systems that power our API products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and Develop APIs and Services: Create scalable, efficient, and secure APIs and services that meet the needs of our users.
  • Lead Technical Projects: Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale.
  • Collaborate with Engineers: Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent.
  • Align Technical Decisions: Align our technical decisions with the company's broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new API initiatives.
  • Generalize Customer Requests: Should be able to generalize specific customer requests and build features that are applicable to the broader user base of the product.

Qualifications:

  • Experience with Natural Language APIs: Understand good practices of building and working with natural language/LLM APIs.
  • Infrastructure Management: Have experience managing infrastructure for API products.
  • Intuition for Scalability: Have a good intuition for what will last and scale.
  • User Experience: Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build.
  • Engineering Experience: 4+ years of engineering experience.

Compensation: Our cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000.

Perplexity AI has experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. We've raised significant funding from prominent investors to support our rapid expansion.

Our Values:

  • Comprehensive Health Insurance: We offer comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • 401(k) Plan: We have a 401(k) plan to help you plan for your future.
  • Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity is part of the total compensation package.