What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Stack Software Engineer position at Perplexity?
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll translate cutting-edge AI advances into products that are both useful and engaging.
Tech Stack: Python | Go | Rust | TypeScript | FastAPI | PostgreSQL | Redis | Docker | vLLM | AWS
Teams Currently Hiring
File Platform
The File Platform team builds and owns the unified, scalable, and secure file layer that powers attachments, syncing file drives, and generated file assets across all Perplexity products. They provide end‑to‑end capabilities for parsing, indexing, content moderation, connectors to cloud/local storage, file search APIs/tools, and user file management. This team defines clear platform abstractions and a generic extensible API, and is responsible for high quality, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency as the single source of truth for all file-related functionality at Perplexity.
Enterprise Growth
The Enterprise Growth team builds the core platform capabilities that make Perplexity a secure, reliable, and adoption-driving product for enterprise customers, owning end-to-end experiences across enterprise authentication (SSO, SCIM, RBAC), org creation and onboarding (white-glove and self-serve flows, invitations, discovery of existing orgs), and admin control and visibility (feature/model/connector controls, Comet controls, audit logs, usage analytics, and growth-related upsell surfaces) to ensure enterprises can confidently deploy Perplexity at scale and realize measurable business impact.
Connectors
The Connectors team builds the platform that links Perplexity to users’ external apps and data sources (e.g. MCP servers and API providers such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more), enabling secure auth, fast and reliable tool calls, automatic connector selection based on the user’s query, and rich, correctly cited answer rendering, while also powering Spaces/Agents that orchestrate multi-step workflows over those connectors for true end‑to‑end automation across Perplexity’s products.
Growth
The Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity. We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces at Perplexity including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier. We build AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges, driving user activation, retention, and revenue across all platforms. We own Perplexity’s growth platform, including experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications, to mobilize impactful feature development across the company. Engineers have outsized impact, building both the product and the platform that power our company’s growth.
Commerce
The Commerce team owns the full commerce stack: payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities as we explore what's possible. The team builds and scales billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features. We also develop and maintain secure, scalable systems—including agentic payments that autonomously interact with payment platforms—ensuring reliable financial transactions for millions of users worldwide. By shaping both user experience and revenue infrastructure, the Commerce team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.
Core Experience
The Core Experience team designs and builds the refined human‑machine interface at the heart of Perplexity: the core asking experience across web, mobile, and Comet. We own the cross-platform foundations that make querying feel effortless—expressive UX patterns, tight frontend interactions, and clear information hierarchy—while maintaining the clean abstractions and performant APIs that client platform teams rely on. This team is engineering-led and highly technical, working closely with platform owners to solve hard cross-cutting problems and uphold uncompromising standards for design, architecture, and craft. We obsess over core quality—latency, reliability, and extensibility—so Perplexity stays fast, consistent, and scalable as LLMs and agents evolve.
Live Events
With AI-powered exploration and browsing, personalization and memory, live data visualization, comparison, and checkout, Perplexity is reimagining the consumer experience across verticals such as travel, shopping, health, real estate, finance, sports, live events and ticketing, and more. Each of these verticals represents an opportunity for Perplexity to disrupt massive markets dominated by slower-moving incumbents. Agentic actions powered by Comet unlock novel consumer experiences such as automated shopping and travel purchases, restaurant reservations, complete travel itineraries planned and booked from scratch, automated investing and financial analysis, and more.
Responsibilities
Compensation Range: $210K - $385K
Tech Stack: Python | Go | Rust | TypeScript | FastAPI | PostgreSQL | Redis | Docker | vLLM | AWS
Teams Currently Hiring
File Platform
The File Platform team builds and owns the unified, scalable, and secure file layer that powers attachments, syncing file drives, and generated file assets across all Perplexity products. They provide end‑to‑end capabilities for parsing, indexing, content moderation, connectors to cloud/local storage, file search APIs/tools, and user file management. This team defines clear platform abstractions and a generic extensible API, and is responsible for high quality, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency as the single source of truth for all file-related functionality at Perplexity.
Enterprise Growth
The Enterprise Growth team builds the core platform capabilities that make Perplexity a secure, reliable, and adoption-driving product for enterprise customers, owning end-to-end experiences across enterprise authentication (SSO, SCIM, RBAC), org creation and onboarding (white-glove and self-serve flows, invitations, discovery of existing orgs), and admin control and visibility (feature/model/connector controls, Comet controls, audit logs, usage analytics, and growth-related upsell surfaces) to ensure enterprises can confidently deploy Perplexity at scale and realize measurable business impact.
Connectors
The Connectors team builds the platform that links Perplexity to users’ external apps and data sources (e.g. MCP servers and API providers such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more), enabling secure auth, fast and reliable tool calls, automatic connector selection based on the user’s query, and rich, correctly cited answer rendering, while also powering Spaces/Agents that orchestrate multi-step workflows over those connectors for true end‑to‑end automation across Perplexity’s products.
Growth
The Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity. We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces at Perplexity including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier. We build AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges, driving user activation, retention, and revenue across all platforms. We own Perplexity’s growth platform, including experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications, to mobilize impactful feature development across the company. Engineers have outsized impact, building both the product and the platform that power our company’s growth.
Commerce
The Commerce team owns the full commerce stack: payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities as we explore what's possible. The team builds and scales billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features. We also develop and maintain secure, scalable systems—including agentic payments that autonomously interact with payment platforms—ensuring reliable financial transactions for millions of users worldwide. By shaping both user experience and revenue infrastructure, the Commerce team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.
Core Experience
The Core Experience team designs and builds the refined human‑machine interface at the heart of Perplexity: the core asking experience across web, mobile, and Comet. We own the cross-platform foundations that make querying feel effortless—expressive UX patterns, tight frontend interactions, and clear information hierarchy—while maintaining the clean abstractions and performant APIs that client platform teams rely on. This team is engineering-led and highly technical, working closely with platform owners to solve hard cross-cutting problems and uphold uncompromising standards for design, architecture, and craft. We obsess over core quality—latency, reliability, and extensibility—so Perplexity stays fast, consistent, and scalable as LLMs and agents evolve.
Live Events
With AI-powered exploration and browsing, personalization and memory, live data visualization, comparison, and checkout, Perplexity is reimagining the consumer experience across verticals such as travel, shopping, health, real estate, finance, sports, live events and ticketing, and more. Each of these verticals represents an opportunity for Perplexity to disrupt massive markets dominated by slower-moving incumbents. Agentic actions powered by Comet unlock novel consumer experiences such as automated shopping and travel purchases, restaurant reservations, complete travel itineraries planned and booked from scratch, automated investing and financial analysis, and more.
Responsibilities
- Building new 0-1 products at high scale
- Working closely with Product, Design, and Data to ship experiments and learn
- Launching new features, experiments, campaigns, and partnerships in a fast-moving environment
- Building core growth infrastructure such as notification platforms, ad attribution, and more
- Analyzing performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
- Building delightful and data-proven user journeys
- Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack
- Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
- Good quantitative understanding of data and experimentation
- Experience making data-driven decisions and measuring impact of those decisions (experimentation, feature flags, adhoc analysis)
- A passion for shipping quality products
- 4 years of industry experience
Compensation Range: $210K - $385K
Salary : $210,000 - $385,000