Backend Engineer - Web Crawling & Search Platform
Summary
Builds and maintains large-scale web crawlers and data ingestion pipelines that power Perplexity’s AI-driven search platform.
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Crawler team. You will design, develop, and operate systems that ingest, process, and manage web-scale data for our next generation of advanced search technologies.
You will own projects focused on building large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems, while improving backend and frontend components for crawler services, dashboards, and data management.