Improve developer experience through contract-first APIs, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and generated SDKs on Perplexity's API Platform.

As a software engineer building developer infrastructure, you will create the paved road from API concept to production. Your work will standardize service scaffolding, deployments, governance, documentation, and SDK generation. You will also operate the platform while keeping APIs ergonomic, well documented, and easy to adopt.

Key Responsibilities

Build standardized service scaffolding and container workflows

Develop CI/CD pipelines with progressive delivery and rollback

Implement contract-first schemas and breaking-change detection

Create versioning, deprecation, SDK, and documentation workflows

Unify billing, analytics, identity, and observability capabilities

Requirements

Five-plus years of backend engineering experience

Experience owning CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code

Knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, and major cloud delivery

Experience with API governance and contract-first design

Robust customer empathy and product sense

Use platform engineering, API governance, and deployment expertise to make Perplexity APIs easier for developers and agents to adopt.

📌 Developer Platform Software Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Perplexity
📍 Winnipeg