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Member of Technical Staff in USA

Perplexity
Full time
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USA
09/06/2026
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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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