Perplexity jobs

Own the personalization and ranking behind key product surfaces to make Perplexity more useful and drive impact on core user and business metrics. Design the decision layer that balances competing objectives to produce the best overall experience for the user.

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Own distributed-systems problems end-to-end — session lifecycle, crash recovery, reconnection and replay, multi-region deployment, and graceful degradation under real production load.

• 4+ years experience
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Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the full funnel — activation, onboarding, SEO, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrade moments — for Computer and every Perplexity product.

• 2+ years experience
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The Backend Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity’s product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence.

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The Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company’s data lake.

• 8+ years experience
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The Cloud Infrastructure team owns the foundational cloud primitives and deployment models that power Perplexity's products, from multi-tenant public cloud to single-tenant and on-premises solutions for enterprise customers.

• 7+ years experience
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Perplexity is seeking software engineers to join our Training Infrastructure team. We’re responsible for the large-scale RL and agent evaluation platforms that enable Perplexity to train state-of-the-art models and optimize agent harnesses.

• 2+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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Design and build core primitives – overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback – with APIs that stay coherent as consumers multiply. Work across the design-token pipeline – authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.

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Design, build, and own product and platform systems for Computer. Lead features, projects and products end-to-end, from problem definition to technical design, implementation, and launch. Hill climb on hard problems, continuously iterating to improve for ourselves and customers.

• 4+ years experience
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Plan and execute red team and purple team engagements simulating advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), endpoints, and application surfaces.

• 5+ years experience
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• Bonus