Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)
$220K–$405K
San Francisco +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Palo Alto
New York City - Experience
- 5+ years (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff) of software engineering experience.
About the job
Shapes and operates Perplexity’s data platform, building scalable batch and streaming systems that support product features, AI workflows, analytics, and experimentation.
What you'll do
- Design and operate data pipelines and real-time ingestion systems.
- Lead data orchestration, reliability, and self-serve platform architecture.
- Set technical direction and standards, and mentor engineers across data infrastructure.
What they ask for
- Strong experience building production data infrastructure systems and processing data at scale.
- Deep familiarity with data orchestration systems such as Airflow or Dagster.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one additional backend language.
- Experience supporting ML/AI workflows, training pipelines, or evaluation systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance tooling.
- Prior ownership of internal platforms used by many teams.
Pay
$220K – $405K USD base salary
Tools
Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, dbt
AI focus
Build data infrastructure for AI training and evaluation workflows and support AI workloads.
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