# Member of Technical Staff

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Rust, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, API Design, Schema Evolution, Rate Limiting, Model Orchestration
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Build and scale mission-critical APIs delivering frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Requires 5+ years backend experience in Python/Go/Rust plus strong API design and cloud infrastructure skills.

## Job Description

## Key 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 aggressive performance optimization (including on upstream systems).
- Continually reimagine the customer needs of tomorrow (and the architectures to serve those needs), while faithfully serving the customer workloads of today.
- Harden system security and reliability across heterogeneous compute environments.
- Collaborate across teams to incorporate novel 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.

## Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python, Go, or Rust.
- Strong understanding of high-traffic API design: schema evolution & versioning, idempotency, authentication patterns, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred), along with fluency with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with modern AI APIs (including latency tuning, streaming, model orchestration, emerging technical standards) is a strong plus.
- Strong customer empathy and product sense, ensuring the APIs you build are ergonomic, well-documented, and easy to adopt for developers and agents alike.

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