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Perplexity is seeking a Staff Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx) to join their team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. As a Staff-level engineer, you will take technical ownership of their developer infrastructure, lead architectural initiatives, and drive cross-functional collaboration to optimize the development experience for their growing engineering organization.

Requirements

• Expertise in build systems (Bazel, Buck, or similar), orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD frameworks.
• Experience integrating new languages and frameworks into existing infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in multiple languages including Python, TypeScript, Go, or Rust.
• Experience leading architectural decisions and mentoring engineers on complex technical challenges.
• Proven cross-org influence, including setting organizational technical direction, standardizing best practices, and leading multi-team initiatives.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle challenges faced by engineering teams operating at scale.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and tooling is strongly preferred given Perplexity's focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable developer infrastructure systems that empower every Perplexity engineer to do their best work.
• Drive cross-team initiatives to dramatically boost reliability, speed, and efficiency of our largest builds and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own and evolve the technical strategy for developer tooling, establishing long-term architectural vision while delivering incremental improvements.
• Mentor engineers across teams on developer experience best practices and provide technical leadership on complex infrastructure challenges.
• Lead comprehensive evaluations of external tools, vendors, and technologies to ensure strategic alignment with our AI platform architecture.
• Design and maintain seamless development environments and IDE integrations across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust).
• Establish and enforce standards for testing, deployment, and monitoring that enable safe, rapid software delivery at scale.

Other

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years leading end-to-end architecture and infrastructure projects as a staff-level or equivalent engineer.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in designing, implementing, and scaling developer productivity platforms in high-growth environments, ideally with an AI, SaaS, or large-scale cloud component.
• Exceptional communication skills—able to articulate complex technical concepts and drive buy-in across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Relentless focus on developer empathy, operational excellence and the ability to see around corners to anticipate company-scale challenges and opportunities.