Senior Search Core Engineer - Indexing & Data Pipelines

Posted yesterday

perplexityBelgrade (MT)

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services

SENIORITY

Senior

Apply

About the role

Perplexity is seeking an Expert Systems Engineer to join the Search Core team. You will design and implement core search engine components, focusing on indexing pipelines and retrieval/ranking at scale across billions of pages. The role emphasizes hands-on systems programming and production-grade deployment, with a strong emphasis on performance. You will contribute to streaming and batch data processing for index construction in a high-load environment, optimize hardware performance with

Before you apply

Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.

Your profile is current

It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.

Two examples you can talk through

Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.

A number in mind

What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.

Your notice period

Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.

Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.