Perplexity is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you’ll contribute to building Perplexity’s end-to-end data stack and data flywheel.
As Perplexity rapidly scales, both in number of use cases and users, our data stack powers scalable, personalized, and fast answers for millions of people worldwide.
Tech Stack: Databricks | PySpark | AWS | RDS | DynamoDB | Docker | EKS | DBT
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Product, Backend, and Data Science teams to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Develop, deploy, and monitor data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at high scale.
- Design and implement tools and abstractions on top of data infrastructure for a variety of analytics, recommendations, and machine learning use cases.
- Design and maintain data orchestration and streaming pipelines.
- Work closely with product teams to develop reusable data resources and design patterns.
Qualifications
- Strong programming and data engineering skills, with proficiency in distributed data processing (e.g., AWS, PySpark, Databricks).
- Strong quantitative skills with experience in estimating performance at high scale.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data services (e.g., AWS, RDS, DynamoDB), containerized infrastructure (e.g., EKS, Docker), and data streaming (e.g., Flink, Spark Streaming, CDC).
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership of systems and designs.
- 4+ years of industry experience in data engineering.
Compensation
The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000.
About Perplexity
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has:
- 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024.
- Over 1 million mobile app installs across iOS and Android.
- 500 million queries served globally in 2023 alone.
Our Growth & Funding
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology:
- January 2024: $73.6 million Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms.
- April 2024: $62.7 million Series B1 round led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Prominent Investors
Our investor base includes:
- IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Databricks
- Jeff Bezos, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
Join us to build the future of data infrastructure and play a key role in the next generation of search technology!
