JobPosting
title: Search Rust Engineer
description: Perplexity AI is seeking a talented Search Rust Engineer to join our rapidly growing team, driving innovation in AI-powered search experiences. As a Search Rust Engineer, your main mission will be to relentlessly optimise performance - squeezing every millisecond of latency from our search stack, while implementing robust, scalable, and reliable systems. What you'll do Your main responsibilities will be to architect, build, and optimise ultra-low-latency search infrastructure using Rust. You will also profile and instrument services, continuously driving down response times at scale, and develop and maintain distributed backend components powering real-time search and retrieval. Architect, build, and optimise ultra-low-latency search infrastructure using Rust Profile and instrument services, continuously driving down response times at scale Develop and maintain distributed backend components powering real-time search and retrieval What you need To be successful in this role, you will need to have deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems. You will also need experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services, and a strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging.
date posted: 2026-03-04T12:27:33.366Z
valid through: 2026-10-01T16:03:01.027Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Rust programming
skills: backend/search systems
skills: systems design
skills: Linux internals
skills: performance debugging
skills: cloud infrastructure
skills: container orchestration
skills: benchmarking
skills: instrumentation
skills: continuous performance improvement
hiring organization: Perplexity AI
  type: Organization
  founding date: 2022
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 52
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Belgrade
employment type: FULL_TIME