Member of Technical Staff (Backend Software Engineer, Search Crawler)

Perplexity·Belgrade·Posted 28 July 2025

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We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our Crawler team. In this role, you will design, develop, and operate systems that ingest, process, and manage web-scale data in support of our next generation of advanced search technologies. This is a critical, high-impact engineering position, requiring expertise across both backend and frontend components of our data acquisition stack. Responsibilities - Take ownership of and lead projects focused on developing large-scale web crawlers, ingestion pipelines, and data processing systems. - Build, maintain, and optimize core backend and frontend components for crawler services, including storage, retrieval, and UI dashboards for data management. - Collaborate closely with Search and Infrastructure teams to ensure the reliable, high-quality ingestion and processing of billions of web pages. - Architect and implement fullstack features and scalable distributed systems that handle high-load and real-time data operations. - Rapidly iterate, experiment with novel approaches, and continuously enhance system performance, usability, and reliability. Qualifications - Minimum of 5 years of software development…

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