Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)
Perplexity · Austin, TX, US
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About the Role
The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems behind Perplexity’s products. This role is for strong infrastructure engineers whose experience spans multiple domains and who are energized by cross-cutting problems that do not fit neatly within a single platform team.
Responsibilities
- Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
- Eliminate bottlenecks across retrieval and serving paths.
- Build shared abstractions across deployment environments.
- Resolve failure modes that cross platform boundaries.
- Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting Perplexity’s consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads.
- Own systems from architecture through production operation.
- Identify gaps between existing platforms and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling.
- Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries.
- Turn findings into durable architectural improvements.
- Set technical direction for complex infrastructure systems.
- Lead high-impact programs across teams.
- Establish durable technical standards through collaboration with infrastructure, product, AI, and security partners.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- A track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages 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 develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through durable resolution.
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- C++
- Java
- Cloud platforms
- Distributed systems
- Kubernetes
- Storage
- Databases
- Networking
- Data systems
- Developer infrastructure
- Production reliability
Experience Level
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience