Senior API Platform Engineer - Frontier AI Infrastructure

Perplexity; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking strong backend engineers to design, implement, and scale the API Platform that powers frontier intelligence for developers. You'll work on distributed systems, performance optimization, and agent orchestration while prioritizing a great developer and customer experience.

You will own backend services in Python/Go/Rust, run in AWS, manage Kubernetes deployments, and contribute to secure, low-latency APIs that handle high traffic.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust.
• Strong design of high-traffic APIs with performance tuning.
• Hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience.
• Good empathy for developers and API usability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs that provide our customers the building blocks for frontier intelligence.
• Ensure low latency and high throughput through performance optimization.
• Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow while serving today’s workloads.
• Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.
• Collaborate across teams to incorporate frontier capabilities into the API Platform and improve existing capabilities for API customer needs.
• Uphold engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality, and internal documentation.

Skills

Python/Go/Rust

API design

Cloud (AWS)

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Perplexity is seeking strong backend engineers to design, implement, and scale the API Platform that powers frontier intelligence for developers. You'll work on distributed systems, performance optimization, and agent orchestration while prioritizing a great developer and customer experience.

You will own backend services in Python/Go/Rust, run in AWS, manage Kubernetes deployments, and contribute to secure, low-latency APIs that handle high traffic.