Senior API Platform Engineer: Scale, Security & Reliability

Perplexity is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and operate high‑performance APIs and platform infrastructure. You will contribute to gateway routing, authentication, quotas, metering, deployment workflows, and API governance, while improving security and reliability for a growing developer ecosystem. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend engineering with Python, Go, or Rust, and hands‑on experience with high traffic APIs, CI/CD, and end‑to‑end platform ownership to support