Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform)

What this role involves

The Storage Platform team at Perplexity owns infrastructure for data persistence, retrieval, and management across all systems. This role involves designing, operating, and improving storage platforms including relational, NoSQL, and vector databases, as well as owning reliability and performance SLOs. The position requires 5+ years of experience and deep expertise in distributed systems and database technologies.

Skills this posting asks for

• postgres
• mysql
• dynamodb
• cassandra
• go
• rust
• python
• relational databases
• nosql
• vector databases
• distributed systems
• performance optimization
• infrastructure
• cloud storage
• data modeling
• high-throughput
• low-latency
• capacity planning
• benchmarking
• tooling
• api design
• sre
• kubernetes
• terraform

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

About the Role The Storage Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers how Perplexity persists, retrieves, and manages data across all systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency for every product and AI workload. This foundational, high-impact group is responsible…