Search Rust Engineer

Search Rust Engineer (London, Belgrade, Berlin)

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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 a...