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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

About the RoleThe 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 workl

Company

Perplexity

Location

San Francisco; Palo Alto; New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-03T15:09:51.053+00:00

Perplexity's Storage Platform team owns the infrastructure for persisting, retrieving and managing data across its products and AI workloads, including relational, NoSQL and vector databases. The engineer designs storage abstractions and APIs, owns reliability and availability SLOs for stateful systems, runs incident root-cause work, and leads capacity planning, benchmarking and migrations. The posting asks for 5+ years operating large-scale backend or infrastructure systems, deep hands-on work with a major database, distributed-systems fundamentals, Go, Rust or Python, and end-to-end ownership including on-call. On-site in three US cities.