Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform)
$220K–$405K
San Francisco +6 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 5, 2026
- Location
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Toronto - Experience
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Builds and operates cross-cutting distributed infrastructure for Perplexity’s consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads, improving performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
What you'll do
- Own infrastructure problems and systems spanning areas such as compute, storage, networking, deployment, and reliability.
- Build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling; diagnose production issues and turn findings into durable improvements.
- Set technical direction and lead complex infrastructure programs across teams.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or another systems or backend language, such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
- Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains.
Pay
$220K – $405K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, C++, Java, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and operate infrastructure supporting AI workloads, including systems across retrieval and serving paths.
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