Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)

Perplexity
San Francisco, United States, London, Austin, Berlin, Seattle, New York, Toronto
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 405,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Technical direction","Mentorship","Problem-solving","Cross-team collaboration","Incident debugging"]

Own cross-cutting infrastructure systems that power real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads. Design, build, and operate distributed platforms spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability—improving performance, availability, scalability, and cost. Debug complex production failures across boundaries, translate learnings into durable architectural changes, and set technical direction through standards and high-impact programs with engineering, product, AI, and security partners.

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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)

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Job Summary

Own cross-cutting infrastructure systems that power real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads. Design, build, and operate distributed platforms spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability—improving performance, availability, scalability, and cost. Debug complex production failures across boundaries, translate learnings into durable architectural changes, and set technical direction through standards and high-impact programs with engineering, product, AI, and security partners.
Location: San Francisco, United States, London, Austin, Berlin, Seattle, New York, Toronto
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability, including eliminating bottlenecks across retrieval and serving paths.
  • •Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure for consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads, owning systems from architecture through production operations.
  • •Identify platform gaps and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling to make infrastructure safer and easier to use.
  • •Improve performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online traffic and background workloads.
  • •Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries, then turn findings into durable architectural improvements while setting technical direction and standards.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 405,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
  • •Own complex production systems end to end and deliver sustained technical impact across teams.
  • •Set technical direction and lead through influence via architecture, design reviews, and mentorship.
  • •Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems/backend languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
  • •Experience across at least two infrastructure domains (e.g., cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, production reliability).
Experience:4+ yearsDistributed systemsProduction reliabilityCloud platforms
Skills:Technical directionMentorshipProblem-solvingCross-team collaborationIncident debugging
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustC++JavaKubernetes

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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