Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)
Perplexity · San Francisco
About this role
**Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)** **About the Role** The Infrastructure team builds and operates foundational systems behind Perplexity's products. This role spans cross-cutting infrastructure problems supporting real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads where latency, reliability, and rapid iteration directly impact user experience. **Key Responsibilities** • Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability • Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads • Identify gaps between existing platforms and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling • Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency • Debug complex production issues and turn findings into architectural improvements • Set technical direction for infrastructure systems and lead high-impact programs across teams **Qualifications** • 4+ years professional software engineering experience with production backend, platform, or distributed systems • Track record of owning complex production systems end-to-end • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and lead through influence • Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, C++, or Java • Meaningful experience across 2+ infrastructure domains (cloud platforms, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, etc.) • Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems and drive production incidents to resolution *We encourage applications even if your experience doesn't match every qualification listed above.*
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