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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

About the RoleThe Backend Platform team is the backbone of Perplexity’s product reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling every product and AI team to build with confidence.This high‑impact group builds and maintains critical infr

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Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-03T15:09:42.08+00:00

Perplexity's Backend Platform team is hiring a software engineer to own core backend services. The work covers a sandbox for running untrusted and user-generated code safely, role-based access control and authorization, and authentication and encryption flows including BYOK. The engineer sets standards for reliability, observability, and incident response, mentors other engineers, and defines platform interfaces with product and AI teams. The posting asks for production backend experience, strong system design, AWS and Kubernetes, and Python, Go, or Rust. On-site in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or New York City.