Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)
Skills
About the role
This is a full-time infrastructure software engineering role for someone solving cross-cutting platform problems across Perplexity’s distributed systems and production workloads. You’ll work remotely from the United States or from offices in San Francisco, Austin, Berlin, London, New York City, Seattle, or Toronto, owning systems from architecture through operation. The role suits an experienced infrastructure engineer who can work across multiple technical domains, lead complex programs, and improve reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
What you’ll do
- Own infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
- Build and operate distributed systems supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads.
- Create shared abstractions, automation, and tooling across deployment environments.
- Improve performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Investigate production failures across service and infrastructure boundaries.
- Set technical direction and lead infrastructure programs across teams.
- Establish engineering standards through architecture work, design reviews, collaboration, and mentorship.
What they’re looking for
- At least four years of professional software engineering experience with production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- A record of owning complex production systems end to end.
- Ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and mentor engineers.
- Strong skills in Python or another backend or systems language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
- Experience in at least two infrastructure areas, including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or reliability.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and drive incidents through durable resolution.
Nice to have
- Experience spanning several infrastructure domains.
- Experience with real-time search, retrieval, model serving, or agent workloads.
What’s on offer
- Full-time work with remote availability in the United States.
- Office options in San Francisco, Austin, Berlin, London, New York City, Seattle, and Toronto.
- U.S. compensation of $220,000 to $405,000 plus equity.
- Benefits for U.S. employees include health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent-care programs.
- International benefits vary by region.
Questions about this role
Is this infrastructure role remote?
Yes. Remote work is available in the United States; offices are also listed in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
How much experience is required?
The posting asks for at least four years of professional software engineering experience.
What is the U.S. salary range?
The U.S. compensation range is $220,000 to $405,000 plus equity.
Which infrastructure skills are relevant?
The posting names distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, and production reliability.
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