Member of Technical Staff (Search Core, Indexing & Data Pipeline Stream)
Perplexity — Belgrade
Posted 2026-09-18
Perplexity is looking for a highly skilled Expert Systems Engineer to join our Search Core team. For the indexing and data processing stream. This role is critical to building next-generation search products and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core search engine components, especially indexing pipelines, data storage formats that operate at the scale of billions of pages
- Develop streaming and batch data processing with YT systems for search index construction in a high-load environment
- Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning
- Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization
- Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages
- Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment
- Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning
- Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization
Qualifications
- 3+ year