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title: "Member of Technical Staff (Rust Engineer, Search)"
company: "Perplexity"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/perplexity"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-rust-engineer-search-a4bd463b-c7c8-4f94-b238-302e973b6eb1"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/a19f1774-5944-4981-b446-e3e40d0dd281"
workplace: onsite
location: "Belgrade"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: europe
skills: ["aws", "linux", "rust"]
date_posted: 2025-10-23T14:50:44.599Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:14:51.821Z
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# Member of Technical Staff (Rust Engineer, Search)

**Perplexity** — Belgrade

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/a19f1774-5944-4981-b446-e3e40d0dd281

## About Perplexity

Perplexity LLC is an Executive Coaching firm for SME

## About the role

Perplexity AI is seeking a talented Search Rust Engineer to join our rapidly growing team, driving innovation in AI-powered search experiences. As a Search Rust Engineer, your main mission will be to relentlessly optimize performance - squeezing every millisecond of latency from our search stack, while implementing robust, scalable, and reliable systems.

Responsibilities:

- Architect, build, and optimize ultra-low-latency search infrastructure using Rust

- Profile and instrument services, continuously driving down response times at scale

- Develop and maintain distributed backend components powering real-time search and retrieval

- Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to design systems that deliver best-in-class query performance

- Apply advanced concurrency, memory management, and network programming patterns for maximum throughput

- Monitor, debug, and tune production workloads to ensure reliability under demanding traffic

- Contribute to code reviews and mentor peers in high-efficiency Rust developmentRequirements:

- Deep expertise in Rust programming, especially for backend/search systems

- Experience profiling and tuning high-load, low-latency distributed services

- Strong understanding of systems design, Linux internals, and performance debugging

- Background in cloud infrastructure - preferably AWS - and container orchestration

- Track record of driving efficiency for search or data-intensive products

- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and own critical product code

- Passion for benchmarking, instrumentation, and continuous performance improvement

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