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Member of Technical Staff in USA

  • Perplexity
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems across compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
  • Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads from architecture through production.
  • Build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling that improve the safety and usability of infrastructure.
  • Improve performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online and background workloads.
  • Debug complex production issues and drive durable architectural improvements.
  • Set technical direction, lead high-impact cross-team programs, establish technical standards, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
  • Experience owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams.
  • Ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise engineering standards through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python or another systems or backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
  • Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or production reliability.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through resolution.

Salary: $220k - $405k/yr

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