Perplexity is looking to scale its API products and systems to support rapid growth and adoption.
Requirements
- Understand good practices of building and working with natural language/LLM APIs
- Have experience managing infrastructure for API products
- Have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
- Experience with Python, Postgresql, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
- Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
- Align our technical decisions with the company’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new API initiatives
- Generalize specific customer requests and build features that are applicable to the broader user base of the product
Other
- 4+ years of engineering experience
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan
- Equity as part of the total compensation package
