Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)
Summary
Builds and maintains Perplexity AI’s backend infrastructure—auth, real-time data flows, orchestration, and sandboxing—to keep the AI-powered search platform fast, reliable, and secure.
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 performan…