# Search Rust Engineer

**Company**: Perplexity AI
**Location**: Belgrade, Berlin, London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124333951

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/a19f1774-5944-4981-b446-e3e40d0dd281?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a6ce6c28-ca1

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Rust programming
- backend/search systems
- systems design
- Linux internals
- performance debugging

### Nice to have
- cloud infrastructure
- container orchestration
- benchmarking
- instrumentation
- continuous performance improvement

---

Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/a19f1774-5944-4981-b446-e3e40d0dd281?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)