Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer (DevEx) to join our small team in revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for building and optimizing the work environment for fellow developers.
The ideal candidate should have experience with build systems, containerization solutions, continuous integration, testing, code editors, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain local and remote developer environments
- Maintain and optimize the CI/CD environment
- Optimize developer workflows to enable them to ship safely and quickly
- Build and maintain testing environments
- Own the developer onboarding flow
- Analyze, debug, and resolve complex developer environment issue
Qualifications
- Strong experience with macOS and Linux development environments
- Proficiency with Bash, Python, and Typescript
- Experience working with containers and optimizing builds
- Familiarity with build tools such as webpack, babel, and bazel
- Familiarity with package installation tools such as pnpm and poetry
- Experience with testing tools such as pytest, Playwright, and jest
- Experience with linting tools such as ESLint, prettier, ruff, mypy
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- 4+ years of industry experience
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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What We Do
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
