Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design, operate and continuously improve the storage platform underpinning all products and AI workloads
• ▹Own reliability, performance and availability SLOs for stateful systems, driving root-cause analysis
• ▹Define and evolve storage abstractions, APIs and tooling for safe, simple consumption
• ▹Partner with AI, infra and product teams on data models and access patterns for low latency and high throughput
• ▹Lead capacity planning, benchmarking and lifecycle management for storage clusters

Requirements

• ▹5+ years building/operating large-scale backend or infrastructure systems in production
• ▹Deep hands-on experience with at least one major database technology (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra) and modern cloud storage services
• ▹Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling and performance optimization
• ▹Proven track record owning services end-to-end including design, deployment and on-call
• ▹Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust or Python)

Soft skills

About the company

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that combines multiple leading models with real-time web search to deliver fast, trustworthy, citation-backed answers. In 2026 it launched Computer, a general-purpose agentic AI product used by millions to turn knowledge into action.