Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · Palo Alto · New York City
Applied AIonsitesenior, staff$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own end-to-end data lifecycle powering product features and AI workloads.
- Build self-serve platform letting teams discover data and run pipelines.
- Design large-scale pipelines powering analytics and experimentation.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Seasoned data infrastructure builder who thinks in systems and owns platforms end to end. You care about reliability, developer experience, and enabling AI and product teams with self-serve, trustworthy data.
Requirements
- 5+ years (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff) software engineering experience
- Strong experience building production data infrastructure systems
- Hands-on experience with batch and/or streaming data processing at scale
- Deep familiarity with data orchestration systems (Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
- Proficiency in Python and at least one additional backend language (Go, TypeScript, etc.)
- Strong systems thinking around reliability, latency, cost, and complexity tradeoffs
- Experience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems
- Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling
- Prior ownership of internal platforms used by many teams
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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