# Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/3f800e42-7c48-4f9a-9b12-43ee23e52516
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-software-engineer-api-platform/

## About the role

Perplexity is seeking strong engineers with a passion for delivering frontier intelligence and infrastructure to developers. Our company builds technology that reshapes how people search, reason, and interact with the world around them. Week after week, we observe increasing demand for programmatic interfaces to that technology. The API Platform engineering team is charged with designing, implementing, and scaling these interfaces.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: API Platform