About The Role

Join Perplexity as a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform). In this role, you will be responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving the storage platform that underpins all Perplexity products and AI workloads. You will own reliability, performance, and availability SLOs for stateful systems, define and evolve storage abstractions, and partner with AI, infra, and product teams to design data models and access patterns. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend or infrastructure systems, strong fundamentals in distributed systems, and proficiency in at least one programming language used for backend systems.

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 cause analysis and long‑term fixes for storage‑related incidents.
Define and evolve opinionated storage abstractions, APIs, and tooling that make it simple and safe for product teams to consume storage at scale.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner closely with product, infra, and AI teams
If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every qualification listed above
5+ years of experience building and operating large‑scale backend or infrastructure systems in production
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling, and performance optimization for high‑throughput, low‑latency workloads
Proficiency in at least one programming language used for backend systems (such as Go, Rust, or Python)
Proven track record of owning services end‑to‑end, including design, implementation, deployment, and on‑call
Deep hands‑on experience with at least one major database technology (for example, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra) and familiarity with modern cloud storage services

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