Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Active$220K–$405K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

About the Role The Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company’s data lake. The team defines the architecture…

What they're looking for

  • Drive architectural decisions across storage, compute, orchestration, and: data APIs, partnering closely with product engineering and data science to align the data ecosystem with Perplexity’s roadmap.
  • Mentor engineers, review designs, and raise the technical bar for data: infrastructure through thoughtful feedback, documentation, and hands-on collaboration.
  • + years (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff) of software engineering experience.
  • Strong experience building production data infrastructure systems.