{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/94ccf41e-d3e1-41aa-9569-c3bcbffc4184/application","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Perplexity","slug":"perplexity","website":"https://www.perplexity.ai"},"countries":["DE","GB","RS"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T12:23:43Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/ab-perplexity-94ccf41e-d3e1-41aa-9569-c3bcbffc4184/","id":"ab-perplexity-94ccf41e-d3e1-41aa-9569-c3bcbffc4184","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-10-28T19:30:10Z","location":"Belgrade; London; Berlin; Serbia","published_at":"2025-07-28T10:31:21Z","regions":["europe"],"remote":"onsite","role_family":"backend","salary":null,"seniority":"unspecified","stack":["kubernetes","aws"],"stack_mentioned":["rust","go","python","c++"],"title":"Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)","untrusted_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.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Take ownership of and lead projects focused on developing large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems.\n\n- Build, maintain, and optimize core backend and frontend components for crawler services, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards for data management.\n\n- Collaborate closely with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure the reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages.\n\n- Architect and implement fullstack features and scalable distributed systems that handle high-load and real-time data operations.\n\n- Rapidly iterate, experiment with novel approaches, and continuously enhance system performance, usability, and reliability.\n\nQualifications\n\n- 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.\n\n- Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable.\n\n- Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.\n\n- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS.\n\n- Demonstrated passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems.","url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/94ccf41e-d3e1-41aa-9569-c3bcbffc4184"}