# Member of Technical Staff (General Software Engineer, Infrastructure) at Perplexity

- Company: Perplexity
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
- Company website: http://www.perplexity.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/76c9b39f-aecc-4247-b5f5-ebcd02dff7c3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/perplexity-member-of-technical-staff-general-software-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems behind Perplexity’s products. At Perplexity, infrastructure sits on the critical path of every answer, supporting real-time search, retrieval, model serving, and agent workloads where latency, reliability, and rapid iteration directly shape the user experience.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems
- A track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java
- Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or production reliability
- Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through durable resolution

Tags: Platform & Infrastructure