Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer Backend Platform
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and implement a sandboxing platform for untrusted and user-generated code. You will extend RBAC and authorization primitives, own authentication and encryption services, and set standards for reliability, observability, and incident response. You will define platform interfaces and SLAs, mentor engineers, and make long-term architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Production backend-system experience
- System design
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Python, Go, or Rust
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Encryption
- Security
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of the sandboxing platform
- Define and extend RBAC and authorization primitives
- Own backend services for authentication and encryption flows
- Drive reliability, observability, and incident-response practices
- Define platform interfaces, SLAs, and integration patterns
- Mentor engineers and make long-term architectural decisions
Benefits
- Equity
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account
- Regional benefits program for full-time international employees