Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · London · Austin · Berlin · Seattle · New York City · Toronto
Applied AIremotesenior$220k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build foundational systems behind real-time search, retrieval, and agent workloads.
- Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, and reliability.
- Set technical direction for complex systems and lead high-impact programs.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A versatile infrastructure engineer energized by cross-cutting systems problems, who owns production systems end to end and raises the bar through technical leadership and collaboration.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems
- Track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java
- Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or production reliability
- Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through durable resolution
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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