Build high-traffic APIs with Python, Go, or Rust at Perplexity, shaping infrastructure for developers and AI agents at global scale.

As a backend engineer on the API Platform team, you will design, implement, and operate mission-critical interfaces. Your work spans distributed systems, API gateways, routing, performance optimization, and agent orchestration. You will help define technical strategy as customer and compute demands grow.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and operate APIs delivering building blocks for frontier intelligence
- Evolve gateway authentication, authorization, quotas, and request routing
- Optimize upstream systems for low latency and high throughput
- Operate SLOs, on-call responsibilities, and incident response
- Collaborate on compute, networking, secrets, and security

Requirements:

- Five-plus years of backend engineering experience
- Proficiency with Python, Go, or Rust
- Experience building platforms used by engineering teams
- Robust knowledge of API design and performance tuning
- Experience operating gateways, proxies, or routing layers

Bring backend engineering, API design, and infrastructure expertise to Perplexity's platform for developers and agents.

📌 API Platform Backend Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Perplexity
📍 Toronto