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

Perplexity
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The opportunity

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, high-impact…

What they're looking for

  • Deep hands‑on experience with at least one major database technology (for: example, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra) and familiarity with modern cloud storage services.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling, and performance: optimization for high‑throughput, low‑latency workloads.
  • Proven track record of owning services end‑to‑end, including design, implementation, deployment, and on‑call.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language used for backend systems (such as Go, Rust, or Python).