Infrastructure Engineer: Latency-Sensitive Backend & Cloud

Perplexity is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and enhance the backend systems behind our latency-sensitive search stack. You will work across high-QPS Rust and Go services, distributed retrieval systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and deployment tooling.

This role blends infrastructure expertise with software engineering, taking systems from design through production operation. You’ll design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems on AWS and Kubernetes, build automation,