Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)

📋 Description

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems that span compute, storage, networking, data, deployment
• Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting Perplexity's consumer, AI, and
• Identify gaps between existing platforms and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling
• Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online request
• Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries, then turn the
• Set technical direction for complex infrastructure systems, lead high-impact programs across teams

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend
• A track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages such as Go
• Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms
• Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure