Perplexity AI
Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawer)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Berlin, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Belgrade, Serbia
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Full description
- We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Crawler team
- In this role, you will design, develop, and operate systems that ingest, process, and manage web-scale data in support of our next generation of advanced search technologies
- This is a critical, high-impact engineering position, requiring expertise across both backend and frontend components of our data acquisition stack
- Take ownership of and lead projects focused on developing large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems
- Build, maintain, and optimize core backend and frontend components for crawler services, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards for data management
- Collaborate closely with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure the reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages
- Architect and implement fullstack features and scalable distributed systems that handle high-load and real-time data operations
- Rapidly iterate, experiment with novel approaches, and continuously enhance system performance, usability, and reliability
- Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS
- Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable
- Minimum of 5 years of software development experience, with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms in at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, Rust, or Go
- Demonstrated passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems