Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

Perplexity · San Francisco · FullTime

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About the Role

The 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 infrastructure, including backend systems for authentication, authorization, real-time data flows, service orchestration, and sandboxing, to ensure fast, reliable, and secure user experiences. By setting rigorous standards for code quality, uptime and performance, the Platform team ensures everyone at Perplexity can innovate at speed on top of a robust, well-architected foundation.

Key Responsibilities

Qualifications

If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every qualification listed above.