# Senior/Staff Web Platform Engineer

**Company**: Perplexity AI
**Location**: San Francisco, New York City, Seattle
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $250K - $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124333951

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/cf179df1-3d69-4a9d-bda0-0c423efa9255
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cb538332-6a9

## Description

We are looking for a Senior/Staff Web Platform Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that enable our product teams to deliver high-quality, performant single-page web applications across desktop, mobile web, and the Comet browser.

## What you'll do

- Optimize performance for critical web flows (search, answer rendering, browsing), with a focus on improving application response speed and perceived latency.

- Design and implement solutions for customizable user interfaces and experience components across Perplexity and Comet.

## What you need

- 6+ years of practical experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on web technologies.

- Deep expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks, particularly React.

- Experience optimizing web application performance and working with metrics such as time-to-first-byte, time-to-interactive, and application response speed.

## Skills

### Required
- JavaScript
- React
- Web performance optimization

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- Frontend monitoring and alerting systems