Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)

What this role involves

The Data Platform team at Perplexity is hiring a senior/staff software engineer to design and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines. The role involves building event-driven systems, leading data orchestration architecture, and setting standards for data correctness and lineage. The engineer will also build self-serve data platforms and drive long-term technical direction.

Skills this posting asks for

• spark
• kafka
• flink
• airflow
• dagster
• dbt
• iceberg
• delta lake
• clickhouse
• python
• go
• typescript
• batch processing
• streaming
• data orchestration
• data quality
• data lineage
• observability
• self-serve data platform
• ml workflows
• training pipelines

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

ABOUT THE ROLE The Data Platform team owns the end-to-end data lifecycle at Perplexity, from ingestion through processing, storage, and serving, powering product features, analytics, experimentation, AI workloads, and the company’s data lake. The team defines the architecture for batch and stream…