Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Belgrade London
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- Experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services
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Role Summary
Perplexity AI is seeking a Search Rust Engineer to optimize AI-powered search infrastructure and build robust, scalable systems. The role focuses on improving latency, throughput, and reliability across distributed backend components that support real-time search and retrieval.
What You'll Do
- Architect, build, and optimize ultra-low-latency search infrastructure using Rust
- Profile and instrument services to reduce response times at scale
- Develop and maintain distributed backend components for real-time search and retrieval
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to design systems for query performance
- Apply concurrency, memory management, and network programming patterns to improve throughput
- Monitor, debug, and tune production workloads for reliability under demanding traffic
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Deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems; experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services; strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging; background in cloud infrastructure and container orchestration; track record of driving efficiency for search or data-intensive products; ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and own critical product code; passion for benchmarking, instrumentation, and continuous performance improvement.
Required
- Deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems
- Experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services
- Strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging
- Background in cloud infrastructure and container orchestration
- Track record of driving efficiency for search or data-intensive products
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and own critical product code
- Passion for benchmarking, instrumentation, and continuous performance improvement
Preferred
- AWS
Original job description
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Original job description
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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 optimize performance - squeezing every millisecond of latency from our search stack, while implementing robust, scalable, and reliable systems.
Responsibilities:
Architect, build, and optimize 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
Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to design systems that deliver best-in-class query performance
Apply advanced concurrency, memory management, and network programming patterns for maximum throughput
Monitor, debug, and tune production workloads to ensure reliability under demanding traffic
Contribute to code reviews and mentor peers in high-efficiency Rust development
Requirements:
Deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems
Experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services
Strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging
Background in cloud infrastructure - preferably AWS - and container orchestration
Track record of driving efficiency for search or data-intensive products
Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and own critical product code
Passion for benchmarking, instrumentation, and continuous performance improvement
About the company
Perplexity
Startup
Perplexity is an innovative technology company that specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing human-computer interaction. With a focus on natural language processing and machine learning, Perplexity empowers users to access information and insights more intuitively and efficiently. The company is dedicated to creating tools that simplify complex data and foster informed decision-making, thereby transforming the way individuals and organizations engage with knowledge. Through its commitment to excellence and user-centric design, Perplexity is shaping the future of information retrieval and analysis.
Perplexity is an innovative technology company that specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing human-computer interaction. With a focus on natural language processing and machine learning, Perplexity empowers users to access information and insights more intuitively and efficiently. The company is dedicated to creating tools that simplify complex data and foster informed decision-making, thereby transforming the way individuals and organizations engage with knowledge. Through its commitment to excellence and user-centric design, Perplexity is shaping the future of information retrieval and analysis.