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 intelligenceEvolve gateway authentication, authorization, quotas, and request routingOptimize upstream systems for low latency and high throughputOperate SLOs, on-call responsibilities, and incident responseCollaborate on compute, networking, secrets, and securityRequirements: Five-plus years of backend engineering experienceProficiency with Python, Go, or RustExperience building platforms used by engineering teamsStrong knowledge of API design and performance tuningExperience operating gateways, proxies, or routing layersBring backend engineering, API design, and infrastructure expertise to Perplexity's platform for developers and agents.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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