Full Time

Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
Location San Francisco; New York City
Level Staff
Sector Technology
Posted Posted 2 days ago

Job Description

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Staff Full Stack Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll translate cutting-edge AI advances into products that are both useful and engaging.

Our tech stack includes Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, React FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, vLLM, and AWS.

Roles and teams at Perplexity are fluid. By applying to this position, you will be eligible to join teams across Perplexity Engineering. During the interview process, we look forward to learning more about your unique talents and figuring out where in our organization you’ll grow and thrive the most.

Responsibilities

  • Building new 0-1 products at high scale

  • Working closely with Product, Design, and Data to ship experiments and learn

  • Launching new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships in a fast-moving environment

  • Building core growth infrastructure such as notification platforms, ad attribution, and more

  • Analyzing performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization

  • Building delightful and data-proven user journeys

Qualifications

  • Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack

  • Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks

  • Good quantitative understanding of data and experimentation

  • Experience making data-driven decisions and measuring impact of those decisions (experimentation, feature flags, adhoc analysis)

  • A passion for shipping quality products

  • 8+ years of industry experience

How we work with AI

AI is at the heart of what we build, and using it effectively is an expectation for every role here. During interviews, we will be excited to see how you think and understand how you make decisions—qualities that would directly influence our AI development—there may be an opportunity for you to showcase your AI skills; however, we ask that you kindly avoid using AI tools throughout the process unless we explicitly indicate otherwise.

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Skills & Requirements

Python Go Rust TypeScript React FastAPI PostgreSQL Redis Docker vLLM AWS

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