Search Infrastructure Engineer

Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $350k
full-time senior

About this role

Build the search and retrieval infrastructure behind Perplexity's AI answer engine. Design indexing systems, optimize query latency, and build real-time web crawling pipelines. Billions of queries served. Low latency, high reliability.

Requirements

Strong systems engineering background. Experience with search engines, information retrieval, or large-scale data systems. Go or Rust preferred.