About the role
Perplexity is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own and improve the backend systems behind our latency-sensitive search stack. You’ll work across high-QPS Rust and Go services, distributed retrieval systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and deployment tooling.
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What you’ll do
- Build and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure for search serving and retrieval.
- Design and improve distributed backend systems that handle high request volumes.
- Debug and optimize Linux systems, containers, networking, and production services.
- Improve reliability through observability, capacity planning, performance profiling, and incident response.
- Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems, primarily on AWS and Kubernetes.
- Build internal tools and automation for development, testing, debugging, and infrastructure operations.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and production rollout safety.
- Contribute directly to product codebases across Rust, Go, and other systems languages.
- Own systems end to end, from architecture and implementation to deployment and production operation.
What they’re looking for
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- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and automation.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, performance analysis, and production debugging.
- Experience building or operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput backend systems.
- Experience with containers, orchestration, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and release tooling.
- Fluency in at least one systems language, such as Rust, Go, C++, or Java.
- Comfort working across infrastructure and application-level code.
- Strong ownership and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
Helpful, not always essential
- Experience with search, retrieval, ranking, or other large-scale data-serving systems.
- Experience operating Rust services in production.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and modern observability systems.
- Experience with profiling, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Experience building AI-assisted developer or operational tooling.
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