Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain the infrastructure to power our products. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, monitoring system performance, and automating processes to ensure high availability. If you have experience working with cloud services and infrastructure, and are excited to contribute to a next generation product, this is a perfect opportunity to apply those skills.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, implement, and monitor scalable infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot performance and scaling bottlenecks and ensure high availability
  • Collaborate with development teams to support new applications
  • Optimize infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency
  • Maintain best practices for code quality, security, and testing
  • Requirements:
  • Strong programming skills (Python, C++)
  • Versatility across the infrastructure stack (docker, SQL, caching, networking, load balancing)
  • Experience working with common cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Track record of working with large scale infrastructure
  • Enthusiasm and independence, with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
  • A passion for solving challenging problems
  • 4+ years industry experience
  • BS in Computer Science

  • Compensation and Benefits

    Perplexity AI’s compensation package consists of: salary, equity, and benefits. 
    - The expected salary range for this position is $160K-$220K
    - Equity - On top of this position's salary, equity will be a component of the total compensation. 
    - Benefits - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
    - 401(k) 
    - Generous home-office stipend
    About Perplexity

    Our mission at Perplexity is to be the world's most knowledge-centric company. We're developing a conversational interface powered by advanced language models to deliver accurate and intuitive search results. Be part of this exciting journey to reshape the future of search and technology.

    Perplexity recently secured $25.6M in Series A funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Other participants include Databricks Ventures and notable individual investors such as former Color CEO Elad Gil, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Google AI SVP Jeff Dean, and former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. Read more about the announcement here.
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