Senior Backend Engineer - AI API Platform

Apply; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apply is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Perplexity API Platform, focusing on building and optimizing critical APIs for developers. This role is vital to delivering high-performance, robust API solutions that can handle immense traffic and provide cutting-edge functionality.

The ideal candidate will possess at least 5 years of backend engineering experience in Python, Go, or Rust, and have a strong foundation in API design and cloud technologies. Join us in reshaping how users interact with AI-powered tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust.
• Strong understanding of high-traffic API design including schema evolution.
• Hands-on cloud experience, preferably with AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate mission-critical APIs.
• Ensure low latency and high throughput through performance optimization.
• Collaborate across teams to improve existing API capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering experience with Python

Backend engineering experience with Go

Backend engineering experience with Rust

API design

Cloud experience (AWS preferred)

Fluency with Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

Customer empathy

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Apply is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Perplexity API Platform, focusing on building and optimizing critical APIs for developers. This role is vital to delivering high-performance, robust API solutions that can handle immense traffic and provide cutting-edge functionality.

The ideal candidate will possess at least 5 years of backend engineering experience in Python, Go, or Rust, and have a strong foundation in API design and cloud technologies. Join us in reshaping how users interact with AI-powered tools.