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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

Perplexity - San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto

Posted Jun 3, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage
Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) San Francisco, California, United States, New York City, Palo Alto 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 - Lead the design and implementation of our sandboxing platform to safely execute untrusted and user‑generated code while meeting strict performance and reliability requirements. - Define and extend our RBAC and authorization primitives, ensuring they scale with new product capabilities and enterprise controls. - Own key backend services involved in authentication and encryption flows (including BYOK‑related pieces), partnering with Security and Infra on defense‑in‑depth. - Set the technical bar for backend platform design and operations, driving best practices in reliability, observability, and incident response for always‑on systems. - Partner with product and AI teams to define clear platform interfaces, SLAs, and integration patterns so new features can reliably build on shared backend capabilities. - Provide technical leadership across the backend platform area, mentoring other engineers and making long‑term architectural decisions that keep the foundation simple, secure, and evolvable. Qualifications - Experience designing and building backend systems

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