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
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