Member of Technical Staff (Golang Engineer, Search)

Join Perplexity AI as a Search Golang Engineer and help architect the next generation of massively scalable, AI-powered search infrastructure. In this role, you’ll leverage Golang to design, implement, and operate backend systems that handle millions of queries with uncompromising reliability and efficiency.

 

Responsibilities:

- Build highly scalable, distributed backend services using Golang

- Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure that supports exponential traffic growth

- Engineer cloud-native solutions, optimizing for horizontal scale and rapid failover

- Implement robust monitoring, autoscaling, and incident recovery strategies

- Collaborate with product, infra, and devops teams to maximize throughput and resilience

- Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, and operational excellence for backend systems

- Mentor peers and champion scalable design principles across the organization

Requirements

- Significant experience developing scalable Golang services for production environments

- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

- Proven track record implementing systems that scale to millions of users

- Strong background in Linux performance tuning, monitoring, and debugging

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation

- Ability to proactively tackle scaling challenges—anticipating bottlenecks before they arise

- Passion for building backend solutions that power real-time, reliable search