Platform Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge & API Marketplace

Perplexity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in New York seeks an experienced software platform engineer to build and operate a unified platform for connectors, MCP servers, and CLI-backed tools, with focus on reliable execution and semantic knowledge.

You will own security, observability, reliability, and incident response in production, and lead the integration marketplace and partner onboarding, leveraging Python/Go/Rust and AWS/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Requires at least four years of software engineering experience and ownership of complex backend systems.
• Strong system design skills and production operation experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Rust and AWS/Kubernetes cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in connector or API platforms, semantic knowledge systems, or marketplaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate a unified platform for connectors, MCP servers, and CLI-backed tools.
• Develop the integration marketplace and partner onboarding experience.
• Own security, observability, reliability, and incident response in production.

Skills

Backend System Design

Connector Runtime Development

API Integration

MCP Servers

Semantic Modeling

Knowledge Systems

Search And Recommendation

Marketplace Development

Authentication And Authorization

Distributed Systems

Production Reliability

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Perplexity in New York seeks an experienced software platform engineer to build and operate a unified platform for connectors, MCP servers, and CLI-backed tools, with focus on reliable execution and semantic knowledge.

You will own security, observability, reliability, and incident response in production, and lead the integration marketplace and partner onboarding, leveraging Python/Go/Rust and AWS/Kubernetes.