# Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler) at Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler) at Perplexity in Belgrade and 2 more. Full-time. Posted July 28, 2025.

- Company: Perplexity
- Location: Belgrade and 2 more
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 5+ years
- Posted: 2025-07-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/94ccf41e-d3e1-41aa-9569-c3bcbffc4184/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/member-of-technical-staff-backend-software-engineer-search-crawler-perplexity-r13sj2

## Requirements

- Minimum of 5 years of software development experience, with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms in at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, Rust, or Go.
- Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable.
- Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS.
- Demonstrated passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems.

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Crawler team. In this role, you will design, develop, and operate systems that ingest, process, and manage web-scale data in support of our next generation of advanced search technologies. This is a critical, high-impact engineering position, requiring expertise across both backend and frontend components of our data acquisition stack.
**Responsibilities**

- Take ownership of and lead projects focused on developing large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems.

- Build, maintain, and optimize core backend and frontend components for crawler services, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards for data management.

- Collaborate closely with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure the reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages.

- Architect and implement fullstack features and scalable distributed systems that handle high-load and real-time data operations.

- Rapidly iterate, experiment with novel approaches, and continuously enhance system performance, usability, and reliability.

**Qualifications**

- Minimum of 5 years of software development experience, with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms in at least one of the following languages: Python, C++, Rust, or Go.

- Experience with large-scale web crawlers is highly desirable.

- Proven experience building, deploying, and optimizing high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.

- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS.

- Demonstrated passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems.