# Backend Software Engineer

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220K – $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/2b5a9f9c-7cd5-4579-b7c2-69d09e0214c8
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_813d021a-2d3

## Description

Perplexity is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our small team. You will be responsible for leading design, implementation, and scaling of backend systems that power web, mobile, and browser products.

## What you'll do

- Build scalable systems that ingest and process data from the web, files, and other sources.

- Optimize interfaces that interact with databases and caching systems.

## What you need

- Strong experience with Python

- Strong experience with databases and caching

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- databases
- caching

### Nice to have
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- high-scale data
- non-deterministic systems