Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)
Perplexity5 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a secure, performant, and reliable sandboxing platform for untrusted and user-generated code.
- Define and extend RBAC and authorization primitives for product capabilities and enterprise controls.
- Own backend services supporting authentication and encryption flows, including BYOK-related functionality.
- Drive backend platform standards for reliability, observability, operations, and incident response.
- Partner with product and AI teams on platform interfaces, SLAs, and integration patterns.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and long-term architectural direction across backend platform systems.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience designing and building production backend systems, with additional experience expected for senior and staff levels.
- Strong system design skills and a track record of building efficient, reliable, and scalable architectures.
- Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, or Rust, with the ability to work in a multi-language environment.
- Comfort working in security-sensitive areas including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
- Collaborative approach and ability to solve challenging technical problems with experienced engineers.
About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.