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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

Perplexity · Platform & Infrastructure

Location
San Francisco, California, United States · Palo Alto, California, United States · New York City, New York, United States
Metro
San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
Workplace
Unspecified
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Pay
$220K–$405K/yr (published by employer)
Posted
5 months ago
Source
Ashby

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About the Role

The Storage Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers how Perplexity persists, retrieves, and manages data across all systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for every product and AI workload. This foundational,…

Key Responsibilities

Design, operate, and continuously improve the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads, including relational, NoSQL, and vector databases. Own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems, driving root…

Qualifications

5+ years of experience building and operating large‑scale backend or infrastructure systems in production. Deep hands‑on experience with at least one major database technology (for example, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra) and familiarity with modern…