Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)
Perplexity2 months ago
Remote, United States +7 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems across compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
- Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads from architecture through production.
- Build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling that improve the safety and usability of infrastructure.
- Improve performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online and background workloads.
- Debug complex production issues and drive durable architectural improvements.
- Set technical direction, lead high-impact cross-team programs, establish technical standards, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- Experience owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams.
- Ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise engineering standards through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship.
- 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, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or production reliability.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through resolution.
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.