Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $220K – $405K, with equity offered.

U.S. Benefits

Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.

International Benefits

Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.

About the Role

The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems behind Perplexity's products. This role is for strong infrastructure engineers whose experience spans multiple domains and who are energized by cross-cutting problems that do not fit neatly within a single platform team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems that span compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
• Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting Perplexity's consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads.
• Identify gaps between existing platforms and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling that make infrastructure easier and safer to use.
• Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online request traffic and background workloads.
• Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries.
• Set technical direction for complex infrastructure systems, lead high-impact programs across teams, and establish durable technical standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
• A track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages.
• Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains.