Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

What this role involves

Perplexity AI is hiring a backend platform engineer to design and build critical infrastructure for authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and real-time data flows. The role involves owning key backend services and setting technical standards for reliability and security. Candidates should have strong system design skills and experience with cloud technologies like AWS and Kubernetes.

Skills this posting asks for

• aws
• kubernetes
• python
• go
• rust
• backend infrastructure
• sandboxing
• rbac
• authorization
• authentication
• encryption
• byok
• observability
• incident response
• system design
• service orchestration
• security

Requirements

• 4 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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 authenticatio…