About

• Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.

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