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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto · New York City

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Applied AIonsitemid to staff$220k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead design of sandboxing platform for safely executing untrusted code.
  • Own backend services for authentication, encryption and enterprise RBAC.
  • Set reliability standards enabling product and AI teams to innovate fast.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Backend builder with 4+ years shipping production systems who thrives on security-sensitive platform challenges and raising the bar for reliability. Collaborative mentor who enjoys enabling product teams with simple, secure foundations.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building backend systems that run in production (typically 4+ years for mid-level, more for senior and staff)
  • Strong system design skills, with track record of creating efficient, reliable, and scalable architectures
  • Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure (for example AWS, Kubernetes, and related cloud technologies)
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and ability to work in multi-language environment
  • Collaborative mindset and eagerness to solve challenging technical problems with other experienced engineers
  • Comfort working in security-sensitive areas (auth, authorization, encryption) and making pragmatic trade-offs

Lab profile

About Perplexity AI

Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.

What they build

  • Perplexity AI answer engine
  • Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
  • Comet AI browser and desktop apps

Known for

  • Agentic AI and agent capabilities
  • Applied AI product engineering
  • Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
  • Multimodal AI and integrations

Key facts

  • Founded in 2022
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Serves millions of users daily
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